What happens it we apply empiricism to religious questions?
If you adhere strictly to empiricism as the best way to determine truth, then you should apply it to religious questions just as you would any other type of question. You would formulate one or more hypotheses, test them either experimentally or logically and treat the results just as you would treat the results of testing any other hypothesis. You may say that, If a supreme being exists or if that being has certain qualities, then certain phenomena should exist or occur. Lets say you did that and found mixed results. Sometimes what should happen does and sometimes it doesnt. You then arrive at the conclusion that the experiment produced random results and therefore your hypothesis is either invalid or irrelevant because you cannot dependably attribute any outcome as a result of the existence of God. For practical purposes, that amounts to a negative outcome as it did with our logical example a moment ago. If something has no cause and produces no effects, its existence does not matter
