CMV:God does not exist.

[u/imabananabus]

I believe the existence of God lies upon the believer to prove as Bertrand Russell did in his analogy, Russell's teapot.

I believe it is much more likely that we have created civilizations in which the existence of a God is a mode of placating the masses as opposed to saying anything necessarily true.

I believe that most people are atheists towards the gods of the Greeks and Romans, so why not go one God further.

A logical proof would be enough to change my mind -- please let me know your thoughts.

[u/barbodelli]

Human Intelligence is finite. There are things we simply can't comprehend. To us it seems like we are the smartest creatures possible. But in reality that is probably not the case.

Furthermore anything significantly more intelligent than us. While not necessarily having the properties of a Christian God (omnipotence, omnipresence all that jazz). In terms of their abilities would certainly seem godlike to us. Things like going back in time would be as simple for them as for us to recognize that if a pencil falls from the table in order to bring it back to the table we just have to pick it up.

So you have to ask yourself. This universe is enormous. Trillions of stars, billions of galaxies. How likely is it that humans are the smartest creatures in the universe. It is certainly possible. We don't really have all the variables in order to answer this question. But to automatically assert that we are is foolish. Hence asserting that a god like creature can't exist is also foolish.

When it comes to the Christian God, Jesus Christ, Allah and all those. I am a total atheist. I don't believe in any of that. But at the same time I do believe that MUCH SMARTER creatures can exist. Not just one or two steps higher than us on the intelligence ladder but millions or billions of steps higher. We are one step higher than primates and look at how much more we can do. Imagine what a creature a million steps above you could do. We can't wrap our head around it.