Quote - Right, religion predates science.  That's why it's up to science to disprove god.  Before science, religion didn't have need for proof of god.  Only if religion had arrived after science would it need proof of god to base its claims on.

There seems to be an unspoken assumption here that science wants to disprove the existence of god, and this seems to be a common conception amongst many religious people. I have never seen any evidence that science wants to disprove the existence of god. In general scientists want to speak freely about their theories and discoveries. Sometime they may say something like "Man is descended from apes", and because the bible does not say that, some people get the idea that science is trying to argue with religion. Its not! Scientists are just saying what they believe, without reference to religious opinions.

Scientists are people, and some of them are interested in proving the existence of god, and some of them want to disprove the existence of god, and many of them (probably the overwhelming majority) are happy in their own beliefs and don't seek proof one way or another. But that has nothing to do with science, that's just personal beliefs of people who just happen to be  scientists.

If you hold the view that god is a supernatural being, then it would be impossible for science to prove, or disprove god's existence. Science only deals with the natural world, and by its very nature, can't say anything about a supernatural world. On the other hand it your definition of god has it that god is everything, then it would seem that science is the attempt to understand god, not to refute his (her, it's) existence.

It seems that some religious people feel that scientific ideas, if true, would disprove the existence of god. Don't blame science for that, that's a religious idea, not a scientific one. Same goes for those of no faith who claim science disproves god. Where exactly is this theory that disproves the existence of god? Science can give convincing evidence that some religions teachings are false, but on the existence of god, science  is, and must forever remain mute.