If God Ever Stopped Intervening In Nature....

Welcome to the fray! While that is true it is only part of the story.Science deals with evidence, which in turn is used to construct hypotheses. Those are tested etc. etc. leading to the formulation of theories, which are the single best explanations for a particular set of facts.The problem I see for your approach is it relies on logic, rather than evidence. Logic is just a way of manipulating data, and it does not guarantee accurate results. If the data is faulty, logic will reach faulty conclusions--logically. That follows Kettering's Law: "Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence."It would seem that if you are going to discuss, scientifically, the properties and behaviors of deities, as you propose, it would first be necessary to produce evidence that deities exist. Then the scientific method and logic could come into play.

No, that's what I would consider to be modeling. That is a very useful tool in science.However, for a model to accurately reflect reality it must work from evidence and assumptions based on reality.Adding deities, whose nature and behaviors are based entirely on speculation, to a model would put one in the realm of philosophy or theology more than science no matter how accurately the laws of physics were modeled.

I have made no argument against science or logic. I have pointed out that logic can only be useful if the information you are using is useful. This is also true of science, but science has more testing and error correction built in than does logic. The scientific method works by first gathering facts, generally through observation. Groups of facts can then be tentatively explained through hypotheses, or, after rigorous testing of those hypotheses, by development of a theory. In other words, science is facts and theories. Facts by themselves lack meaning.But the scientific method can't operate in the absence of those facts (also called evidence).I do agree that the scientific method and logic will play a roll, but only after you come up with some evidence (facts).But the bottom line is--if you want to establish the existence of deities, find some evidence that science can deal with. Then the scientific method and logic can be applied.

While it is true that collecting evidence is a part of science, not much can be done in science without evidence.About the only thing I'd think you could do without any evidence at all is highly theoretical modeling. But the results of any model would have to be compared against evidence for them to be of any use. Perhaps the search for dark matter might be an example.But normally, science begins with data (observations, etc.) and applies the scientific method.Perhaps if you could clarify your point relating science to deities that would help.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

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Robert A. Heinlein