For all intent and purposes we know, to our extent to know, that a personal interactive god most likely does not exist.

Does this mean that there is no such thing we might refer to as god-like existing…of course not, there may very well be a god-like entity that is simply undiscovered.

It could be like a Master DNA..from which all things are constructed, organized, and maintained.

It could be that the Universe itself is a god-like entity, intelligent and aware, but has either no concern or very little concern for individualism.

Diogenes ( not me ) once said that:

All things are differentiations of the same thing, and are the same thing. And this is obvious; for, if the things which are now in this world - earth, water, air, and fire, and the things we see existing in this world -
if any one of these things, I say, were different, that is, by having a substance peculiar to itself; and if it were not the same thing that is often changed and differentiated, then,
things could not in any way mix with one another, nor could they do one another good or harm.
Neither could a plant grow out of the Earth, nor any animal nor anything else come into being unless things were so composed as to be the same.
But all these things arise from the same thing; they are differentiated and take different forms at different times, and return again to the same thing.

Essentially, Diogenes ( not me ) believed that only one thing exists, and every thing that exists is produced from that one thing…is essentially parts of the whole.

That what we see is essentially just differentiations of the one thing…the various forms it produces from itself. From this one thing comes the many variations of it.

Does this support the concept of ‘ design ‘…as in something ‘ aware ‘ and creates with knowledgeable purpose…no. It could in fact be completely unaware.

Just something for you to contemplate.

There’s an old expression “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” by Saint Francis of Assisi

Which could be updated to ‘ May I have the ability to understand what can be known at this time, the rationale to understand that there are many things I cannot know at this time, and the wisdom to know the difference between them. ‘

We are still babes…barely out of our diapers…

I am confident in saying that the amount of ‘ knowledge ‘ we possess is like a single grain of sand out of all the sand on every beach on the planet.

God, death, afterlife, predestination, other worlds, aliens, etc etc etc are not things we can dismiss as impossibilities, they are simply things we are not equipped yet to know one way or another…and maybe we never will be equipped to ever understand them…

so to say there is no such thing as a god ( of any type ) , or aliens, etc, is to lack the understanding to know that there are things we presently cannot know…

all we can do, at this point,

is base our understanding upon what we do know…

and what we do know, as rational people, that ‘ if ‘ there is a god it would not suffer from the frail human condition which is prevalent in most god-based belief systems…

it is not that we reject the possibility of a god, we merely reject any god that behaves in an irrational manner …if god exists, it’s first and foremost character would be rationality.

If a god, of any type or form, exists…it would be rational and behave in a rational manner.

“I think therefore I am” is actually a stupid statement to make…”I am thinking, therefore I exist.” is equally stupid…

because both literally mean you must think to exist…therefore a rock does not exist…neither does the air we breathe…etc…

it’ like the saying ‘ if a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it fall does it make a sound? ‘

all three statements insist that man must exist or nothing else can exist around him, and that he must be there to participate in it or it does not exist at all.

Center of the Universe thinking…’ I think, therefore I am ‘, and therefore everything else is..without my thinking nothing could exist.

The statement is neither wise nor profound…and rightfully belongs where it came from…the past.

Everyone is, to an extent prejudiced…everyone, to an extent, has some degree of bias…

it’s human nature.

Humans are like fish, we are attracted to those things that are the most agreeable to us, like a nice shiny lure…and we are repelled by that which is the most offensive.

And it can differ greatly from one person to the next.

It’s the reason why two people will walk into a store to buy a stereo and be attracted to two completely different units.

So the very concept of thinking that an unbiased media could exist shows a lack of understanding of the human condition.

Objectivity is not the state of being without prejudice, objectivity is the state of being able to see the other side, or all sides, in spite of your prejudice.

And, as Nono said:

Objectivity is often either encouraged or discouraged from the top down.