There is no evidence for God
True. On the other hand, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The rest of this post isn't at you MuscleBuff. I'm just posting random thoughts on the topic to anyone who likes walls of text.
I'm inclined to see things the way Obsidian has been posting. At the fundamental level in our universe, we still have too many unexplained things to posit that we can be sure there is no god. I'm equally inclined to roll my eyes at those who assert there MUST be a god, as those who assert there absolutely is NO god. Only fools are certain (I'm not calling you or anyone a fool here...merely just throwing out pleasantries).
The fundamental wave equation for particles only describes what we observe, but an equation that describes observations at an average level of probabilities is itself not "fundamentally true"; it merely provides outcomes that match what we can "see".
We do not know the underlying nature of the fundamental fields from which the particle theory of quantum mechanics emerges. We fully admit that some of the key forces in our universe (dark energy) remain completely hidden to us. Dark matter shapes our galaxies, and remains hidden to us so we "fudge around it" and say "there's stuff we can't explain".
The JWT continues to capture images of galaxies that have redshifted so much that it strains the understanding of the Big Bang.
With so much yet still to "know", it seems premature to say that we can close the book on the existence of a god(s).
Figure this; the "gating" events of evolution of life on earth might have come down, fundamentally, to the development of eukaryotic cells. How finite an occurrence, that happened when it did? That one prokaryote ate another and instead of digesting it, became symbiotic with it? So random...and possible in an infinite universe. But can we be sure there wasn't a helping hand?
The Fermi Paradox gives me the ability to sleep at night. At its root, it wonders "in an infinite universe with near infinite galaxies and star systems and likelihood for potential habitable planets, where the fuck are all the aliens?". I like to think that if they're out there, and they came about when the universe was "younger" than it is now, then any contact they make with us will be hundreds of millions of years in the making and would have passed us by whilst we climbed out of the primordial ooze. Today, that same signal would be from a species so far advanced, they'd be indistinguishable from Gods, as far as we're concerned. The old "Prometheus" story from Hollywood, if you will.
If there are advanced species, and I believe they're likely out there, we are likely unable to understand them, and would likely experience them as gods if we could understand them. Just think; show something as banal as an iphone today to a man from the 1400's, and he'd say it was sorcery or maybe call you a god. And that's only 600 years or so. What would a species do with a million year head start, and how would we experience them? Or flip the example on its head; imagine you had a spacecraft and could travel to a distant star in a galaxy, found a planet, and saw that there were small nematodes and mosses on the planet. If those things had anything resembling a consciousness, wouldn't it be fair to say you would be seen as a "god" to those beings, if they had the ability to "experience your presence" at all?
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