Andrew4Handel wrote:The alternative to god/s is nothing.
How do you know that for sure? Do you have a coherent definition of "god" or is it just a label that you like to impose on the ultimate explanation of reality, whatever that might be? What are the properties of this god that you see as the ultimate explanation of reality? Why is this explanation "ultimate"?
There is no alternative explanation for the existence of reality.
If there is an ultimate explanation for reality, I'm quite sure that we will eventually get to it through empirical science. If this explanation turns out to be something that can reasonably be called "god", then so be it. Until then, it makes no sense to impose an arbitrary, incoherent, poorly defined label on a non-existent explanation.
Noone has presented a genuine alternative except ignorance.
Why are you in such a hurry to get an ultimate explanation? A couple of millenia ago, no-one could present a genuine explanation for thunder and lightening other than it being the handiwork of god. We're getting there. If we keep doing the small things right, and keep incrementally building layers of explanations for different phenomena, we will eventually get there. For things for which we don't currently have an explanation, it's best to say that we don't yet have an explanation. If you impose an arbitrary explanation for things without empirically arriving at an explanation, you will never be able to say for sure what the real answer is.