In my opinion, both come with empirical evidence; however the algorithms may be, or at least may appear, different.
There is new work being done in the area of consciousness though that is making breakthrus. Here is a cut and pasted excerpt from another post that I made on the Atheist board:
Scientists are finding some "proof" of "something," but they tend to refrain from calling it "god." Many now refer to Princeton's Global Consciousness Research Project when talking about quantum entanglement and the possibility for a higher level of global consciousness.
For those of you who may be unaware of Princeton's Global Consciousness project, you can visit this link:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/index.html
Using random number generators (nicknamed EGGs), Princeton students have been observing anomalies immediately before, during and shortly after major events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorist attacks and even mass prayer sessions and concerts for world peace!
The project has been running for nearly a decade; and their most striking results came shortly before, during and after the attacks of 9-11. During the height of the attacks, the random number generators--which continually generate numbers--ceased to be random throughout the world. The results were shocking. Read more here:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html
Many other events, as can be found listed on Princeton's website can be seen here:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/results.html This is NOT a complete list of events, but is a good starting point for examples.
As I said, many scientists hesitate to call what they are learning and observing as "god," but "proof" of "something" is becoming more and more evident.
That is but one example. Here is another (in a cut and pasted excerpt from yet another thread):
There was a recent guest host on Coast to Coast AM that you may or may not be aware of named Lee Baumann, Ph.D. He was formerally a medical physican, who saw quite a bit of evidence of an afterlife through his practice in the medical field. He began to write about Near Death Experiences after he saw many clinically dead individuals return and describe their experiences.
Baumann is the author of three books:
God at the Speed of Light
The Akashic Light: Religion's Common Thread
Window To God: A Physician's Spiritual Pilgrimage
And one last thought, from a research paper that I helped my son write on Egyptian mythology over a year ago:
The Egyptian understanding of the psychology of man led them to form rituals and mythologies in order to keep the core information (of the sciences) intact for future generations. In fact, the Egyptians had no word in their language that means the same as our word religion, and their word magic was interchangeable with their word for science.
Their scientific knowledge included, but was not limited to: cosmology, astronomy, biology, genetics, mathematics, architectural engineering, sound harmonics technology, geology, esotericism, and the interaction of all these things as a whole unit. The Egyptian mythologies had multi-layered meanings.
List ye now to the unveiling of Mystery.
List to the symbols of Mystery I give.
Make of it a religion.
For only thus will its essence remain.
~Wisdom of Thoth from the Supplementary Emerald Tablet XIV~
