" ...
Says the Lord Almighty"
"Then he said to Thomas"
There's a big difference between doing exactly what GOD just told you to do and dreaming up your own experiments to see if God is real.
IMO.
If you want to put God under a microscope, that's your choice.
Personally, I don't recommend it.
Deuteronomy 6:16
Do not test the LORD your God
as you tested Him at Massah.
I find it strange that the WHOLe sentence is very seldom quoted,
Then there is fleece...
So Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel by my hand as You have said— look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
And it was so.
When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.”
And God did so that night.
It was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground.
– Judges 6:36-40