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I don't understand why you feel like you need to say "I still believe God exists." I don't see why you should believe this. There is definitely a possibility that there are more superior beings than us in the universe. In fact, I think this is likely given the vastness of the universe and our small part in it. There is also a possibility that superior beings created us and are even watching over us, but do we have any evidence of this? No we don't. Some people may claim that the intricate complexity and beauty found throughout the universe and in living things is a testament of a creator. However, with the findings of the last few centuries we have discovered that complex, intricate, and beautiful things can arise from simple rules with no overseeing ruler. One such finding would be the discovery of evolution by Darwin, and computational findings have been outlined by Alan Turing and Stephen Wolfram with his cellular automata in the book "A New Kind of Science".

One of the interesting things to think about is that we think that we create things (part of the reason we think there must be a creator when we see order in the universe is because we often create ordered things ourselves). However, I think we have a lot less control over our creations and thoughts than we imagine. We have a lot less free will than we think we do. We are all the products of our genes and the way our environment has shaped us. John had some good lines for this in the Watchmen:

Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps NOTHING is made. <- (I like this line a lot because it suggests that not even we are making things; not like we think we are) A clock without a craftsmen. <- (reference to the deists who often referred to clocks; God setup the universe (the clock) and is now just letting it run by itself; the founding fathers of America (Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, etc.) were mostly deists)

I think the only thing a person can rationally be is agnostic. "Agnostic" literally means "a" without "gnosis" knowledge. We are all without knowledge. Our understanding of the universe and how it works is very primitive. So let's just try to find out more without claiming to know things that we don't in the meantime.

Anyway, that's my take.

-Kurt