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Originally Posted by archetypal fool
And the only way to experimentally prove anything in regards to your last point would be to completely isolate a group of people from any mention of a God, while simultaneously giving them scientific explanations for all the natural phenomena around them. If they don't developer a concept of a God under these circumstances, then it would prove that the entire reason for religion/God is to provide people with the "whys" and "hows". If this is the case, then God is fictional; a construct of our curiosity and our need to explain things.
Another way to put it is: If a child is raised as an atheist, with intelligent atheistic parents, then will he develop a concept of God? I very strongly doubt that he will.
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I am not sure if I am understanding the argument.
Are you saying that God only exists if people believe there is a God?
If there is no God that is one matter.
If there is a God, according to theists, doesn't God exist outside of humans. Judeo-Christian (I don't know much about others) theology believe that God created the universe before man.
Suppose this was the case, that there was a God, then the absense of human belief or knowledege in/of a God does not make God not exist.
Do you understand what I am trying to explain, I am not sure if I was clear.