The best argument I can come up with is if we're very loose with our definition of what we consider to be a god. Like if there was an alien from another universe that was so advanced that it would seem like a god to us. If it turned out that it created our universe (but using advanced science rather than magic), then deists could claim that that's proof that they were right in their beliefs. That this was the alien they had believed in all along. I don't think we should count aliens as gods though, no matter how godlike they seem. All their powers would be explainable, a god's powers wouldn't be.
No doubt if this origin of our universe were to be proven, then all different religious figures would try to claim that this alien is the god of their religion, and that it sent its son to save us or that it communicated with Mohammad, etc. But that'd be ridiculous, this alien would have no interest in us. It might study us, but to believe that it would care about the desires of such basic creatures is laughable, we'd be like microbes to it.
So this would still only be a good argument for deism, I can't think of any good arguments for any one religion though.
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The best argument I can come up with is if we're very loose with our definition of what we consider to be a god. Like if there was an alien from another universe that was so advanced that it would seem like a god to us. If it turned out that it created our universe (but using advanced science rather than magic), then deists could claim that that's proof that they were right in their beliefs. That this was the alien they had believed in all along. I don't think we should count aliens as gods though, no matter how godlike they seem. All their powers would be explainable, a god's powers wouldn't be.
No doubt if this origin of our universe were to be proven, then all different religious figures would try to claim that this alien is the god of their religion, and that it sent its son to save us or that it communicated with Mohammad, etc. But that'd be ridiculous, this alien would have no interest in us. It might study us, but to believe that it would care about the desires of such basic creatures is laughable, we'd be like microbes to it.
So this would still only be a good argument for deism, I can't think of any good arguments for any one religion though.