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Conflicting ideas and competition are the reason we have advanced so far in everything.
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We can't just believe in God because we don't have answers YET. That's closed minded to believe in "nothing" (no evidence) because you can't answer certain question atm.

Most of what has been theorized of black holes are still theories btw.

I think you are still being confused about the meaning of the word "theory".

When you speculate an idea to explain something, it starts off as a hypothesis - this is what most confused people mean when they say 'theory'.

A hypothesis becomes a scientific theory/law(law & theory are interchangeable in this case) when the idea is thoroughly tested and has been consistently proven to be accurate. Conflicting ideas and competition drive progress, but an idea that doesn't have practical applications isn't very valuable. Because a theory is proven to be accurate and thus has practical applications, it has value and the reason why you get a Nobel prize for disproving it.

Merely saying "God did it" only begs the question of who God is and how he did it, and it would be ignorant to dismiss those concerns as some variant of "God is unknowable" since that is exactly the kind of attitude that silences conflicting ideas and competition that you said drives progress.

I'm not saying that our current theories are infallible, but I'm saying that they are our best models for what we know about the world around us and certainly more useful than the flimsy equivalent of "god/magic", and we would demand new theories if our current ones prove to be inadequate or wrong.

I think it is equally arrogant to claim to know for a fact that gods don't exist. I'm open to the idea that gods exist, but I've yet to hear anything beyond weak or unprovable propositions. There's the idea that maybe I should believe in god just in case, but which one? Not to mention I find a lot of religious teachings to be toxic or even contradictory. So rather than try to believe in a virtually unprovable/unknowable being, I would rather treasure the life I already know and live as though divine beings don't exist.