e try to answer all the questions we receive. If you have a question not covered here, please email us and we'll try to answer it. Here are some of the questions we've received so far. How does the Yo-God God Detector work?     We've all heard people claim that a certain event is a sign from God. For example, a quick internet search turned up this story: "Romanian prisoners have promised to behave after finding a cross-shaped turnip. ... The inmates are reported to believe God is telling them to be good [and] the priest at the jail in Satu Mare thinks the vegetable is proof that God exists." The problem with using the turnip as evidence, of course, is that the misshapen turnip could just be a sign that the prison farm is too close to a nuclear plant.   Using the Yo-God God Detector, we don't need to rely on odd turnips, grill cheese sandwiches, or other natural events as a way for God to communicate with us. It gives Him a straightforward way to let us know he exists — He simply has to move the dial. Once hundreds or thousands of us ask in unison with the Yo-God God Detector, maybe God will respond. Can the Yo-God God Detector show us anything about God?     Yes, to some degree, it can. On the more practical side, it can make it more reasonable to construe unusual events as simple oddities rather than as supernatural communication. Imagine if all the Romainian prisoners (see above) had their own Yo-God God Detectors. They would certainly be less likely to attribute the turnip's shape to intentional Divine intervention — after all, why would God go to the trouble of reconfiguring a turnip's DNA when He could send a clearer message by moving a tiny dial?   To answer the question on a more theoretical level, we need time to collect enough data. On the bottom of each God Detector are instructions to report any movement of the detector's dial. After several years — once there are thousands of God Detectors around the world — we should have some indication of what percentage of God Detectors have registered movement.   If, for example, analysis of the reports indicate that the dials of 93% of the detectors have moved, it would be strong evidence that some spiritual force exists.   On the other hand, the Yo-God God Detectors can't prove that God doesn't exist. If none or only a very few detector dials have been reported to have moved, we can conclude only that God does not want to reveal Himself, that He cannot move the dial, or that he doesn't know about the detectors. These results do, however, present challenges for the standard interpretation of God's nature — that he is all-loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing. Doesn't the possibility of fraud make detector data meaningless?     Although Yo-God God Detectors are sealed to prevent anyone from easily moving the dial, some dishonest people may find a way to manually move the God Detector dials or simply file false reports of movement. To reduce the number of fraudulent reports, every God Detector also has a registration number (on the bottom). Reports of movement (or lack of movement) are keyed to registration numbers, thus preventing multiple, contradictory reports for the same detector. Isn't asking God for a sign blasphemous?     Some people will think that it's wrong to ask God to reveal Himself ("An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign." — Matthew 12:39). In fact, it's likely that some will believe that God may punish people for owning a Yo-God God Detector! If that's the case, Yo-God owners become living God detectors — so we encourage owners to report exceptionally good or bad things that happen to them. Are you an atheist?     It doesn't matter. Yo-God promises that comments on the discussion page will not be censored (except for offensive language), and any reports of detector movement we receive will be included in our list of reports.