“But, if we must play this ridiculous ‘what if’ game, let’s turn it around: what if science ends up explaining everything, will ‘god-botherers’ stop believing in this figment of their own imagination?”
On the other hand, what if it turns out that, if science does end up explaining everything, it was only because in a wholly determined universe, scientists were never able not to?
I know, I know: whatever that means.
Besides, going back to the explanation for existence itself, God is always one possibility. As opposed to something and then everything coming into existence out of nothing at all. Or the equally mind-boggling assumption that it has just always existed.
Then the part I always come back to: no God and all I seemingly have to look forward to is oblivion.
Sure, mock the believers. But in this world, as I have come to understand it, merely believing that God provides you with a moral transcript and then immortality and salvation is all that need be necessary to make it true.
What do the atheists have to put all that in its place…intellectual integrity and honesty?