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People once said the moon was made of mud and birds went there in winter to hibernate in the mud.
Before we understood lightning, we had a whole pantheon of "Gods" to explain it.
50 years ago, we we didn't know if bigfoot or giant squid existed, today we have enough tools that we learned that one exists, and the other probably doesn't.
We can demonstrate in a laboratory that cause and effect are not solid concepts, so any "god" in our universe would need to be something that doesn't exist within causality or he's not "all powerful" at all, and if you have a being that interacts with us, but already knows how everything will evolve and change through time, what's even the fucking point of a god at all? If I'm going to believe in magic, it needs to explain something or be useful in some way.