Science can't prove or disprove gods. Science is a process... you come up with a question, and devise a way to get the answer in a manner that others can reproduce. By it's very nature, it changes as our understanding changes. Religion, on the other hand, resists change because it is not a process by which a person can answer their own questions. It relies on asking someone else, whether it be a living theologian, or the authors of an ancient book. Science has gotten so complex now that people have specialized in relatively small portions of it and then share information, but an individual could go through all the steps of the various experiments that led up to a current one if they so wished. Sometimes as our understanding has grown, we've come to realize that earlier concepts were a bit off to some degree, so we revise our information and move on. Religion only changes when so many people are dissatisfied with it's current practice that they leave, often creating a new denomination. Faith, by definition, is belief in something that you cannot directly know or test. If there were some way to test for the existence of a supernatural consciousness, then the results would be knowledge, not faith, and therefore scientific, not religious. I have faith that my family loves me, because I can never fully know what's going on in the mind of another person beyond what they tell me and how they react to certain events. If I were to do things to test that, it would only cause unnecessary strain on the relationships involved, so I will refrain from experimenting. I'm ok to take the love of a person on faith, but at least I know they exist. There may or may not be a power and consciousness that could be called a deity, but if I were able to directly communicate with or observe such a thing, then it would be knowledge, not faith.
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