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The sciences don't set about proving or disproving God because science is not a spiritual school of thought, which is a consequence of Religious institutions persecuting natural philosophers in the 16th and 17th centuries. One really has to understand the historical context to see how the divide between spiritual and scientific schools came into contention. Nowdays we have neo-athiests like Dawkins, Krauss and Harris who make a lot of noise, and on the other side of that rabble are the extremists, creationists of religious persuasion. Harris is actually a long term meditator of the Vipassana tradition, so even at the extreme end of views we find spiritual inclinations.

The divide isn't actually like 'scientists are athiests', in fact, the most profound advances in science proir to imperial European colonial domination were made by Islamic scholars... who traveled widely and aquired knowledge from India to Greece... So, we must see that the Christian Church's antipathy toward natural philosophy created the division in relatively recent times, which ultimately disempowered the Christian institution.

Now that the Church has very little sway over scientists, we see a trend where spiritualism and the sciences are reconverging, because one of these schools of thought doesn't actually preclude the other - If the pursuit of the truth is genuine.