Hormones will kick in soon.

Poor kid is in for a great big disappointment.

The world is still a wonderful, curious and perhaps even a bit mystical for most 11 year olds - regardless of academic achievements. He should follow whatever path his intellectual curiosity leads him down. Would love to get follow ups on this young man - it will be interesting to see what he "discovers".

Bertrand Russell attempted to do this with mathematics early in the twentieth century. I think he thought he succeeded, for a while.
Loads of people have thought they had found proof, but they were all mistaken.
The most often cited example is the eye, as it is thought too complex to have arisen naturally – but natural selection is able to bat away such arguments. The vagus nerve of the giraffe is often dusted off and wheeled out on such occasions to show how unlikely a creator is.

This is good... The longer he finds nothing the stronger our point is.

Big disappointment ahead!

Great! By the time he's ready to get his driver's license he can be wrapping up a doctoral dissertation on doesntmatter.

lets hope he doesnt waste his obvious talent

He wants to use science to prove mysticism?

There are plenty of people all the way to the top in the physics world who do very well despite being magical thinkers through and through. The ones who cling to Einstein's broken theories of relativity illustrate that more than well enough - being rational is not a requirement.

Have at it, I'll wait.

College grad at 11? That's some serious accomplishment. He knows already what a PhD is and wants to pursue? Great !! Now, as far as proving God's existance, he will eventually become old enough to change his mind set. Regardless of his accomplishments, keep in mind he is 11

Well, that'll be a dead end career.

Oh, what a disappointed person he will be one day.

Best of luck to him. I predict success in getting his degree, failure in his goal of using astrophysics to prove god.

Greater minds than his have tried to prove it. It's not going to happen.

He's young and still believes in fairy tales and imaginary friends. He's trying to reconcile his brain and knowledge with the brainwashing of his family/social group.

He will eventually get up the nerve to declare he's an Atheist.

Bit of luck a some uni life will sort his head out ....nothing like a few years of sex ,drugs and rock n roll to make someone grow up

Good for him. Good thing he's so young, he'll need the time.

Good on him. At least he's got a goal to drive him.

One should not have an a priori goal in the quest for truth and knowledge. Let the facts tell you.

We came from somewhere. There is a creator. As an atheist my problem isn't with the existence of a being but with the belief system attached to him/her/it. That's truly what bugs us yes? He might be able to prove the existence of god, hell, he might even find the bones. How does that change how the world thinks if he can't prove justification of said belief?

It's sad when religious people think they have figured something out no one else has thought of.

Like the people who call into atheist radio shows claiming to have proof against evolution that no one ever thought of before. If they had that they should call biologists to confirm their nobel prize.

I hope the kid makes some great contribution to science, and that he quickly realizes the world is bigger than he thinks it is.

Maybe instead he will find our alien overlords/exterminators or horrors from the cold stars who will devour us all!

I prey he puts an end to all this religious nonsense quickly.