I’m not here to validate or invalidate anyone’s beliefs on the subject- but I will say that this is somewhat nonsensical.
We have cameras and yet there are all sorts of things that happen and don’t get put on film, the world is perhaps less mysterious than in the past but we are still finding species we never knew existed in remote forests and the deep ocean and sometimes even populated well traveled areas. We’ve made fairly recent observations of behaviors in various insects and even dogs and cats which despite living in proximity to humans for thousands of years and being the subject of study and attention- we can still find “undocumented” behaviors and novel things.
That alone doesn’t make this nonsensical- absence of evidence isn’t inherently evidence. What makes it nonsensical is… how many “miracles” and such were performed by god in the abrahamic books? On balance they weren’t everyday occurrences- just a god coming down to grant daily wishes and help with chores. Once in a lifetime if that in many cases. But let’s examine the nature of these miracles…. Dropped a space rock on a city? We’ve seen space rocks fall. Have pictures. Brought plagues, odd weather events? We’ve seen that. Filmed it. Turned people to salt or ash? We have evidence from places like Pompeii and it is documented that humans can and have met similar fates. Cured the sick? Sick people make “miraculous” recoveries against the odds or explanation. It’s documented and recorded.
To be clear- I am not arguing that these events be taken as proof of some divine miracle- the point is that we do in fact have photographs and/or documented and verifiable evidence of phenomenon…
… which adhere to or are even identical to miracles attributed to divine intervention in abrahamic holy books. Most of the “fantastic” miracles that can’t be dismissed or explained easily by science alone involve things that can’t easily be documented- if someone has a “holy vision” or “hears the voice of a god” or such- to an external observer, wether those events actually occurred or were some type of hallucination, what the external observer or recorder could perceive would likely be the same. The classic issue in discussing any type of intelligent and powerful being is that such a being reasonably has the ability to decide wether or not to be observed. Even we humans have the basic technology to confuse or obfuscate many types of recording be that of images or audio or other signals.
So let’s ignore the concept of divinity and look at a scenario that science doesn’t document but suggests is at least more plausible. Let’s picture an alien race with the capability to travel the stars with some proficiency. It is reasonable to assume that such a race would most likely posses overall technological superiority to us. It would also be reasonable to assume that if they are at all similar or relatable to is they would have similar but advanced technology. We have stealth technology to reduce or effectively hide various means of detection using heat, light, reflected or absorbed radiation, magnetism etc. we have means to defeat optical sensors and even means to camouflage things from the human eye. It might be reasonable to assume that an advanced alien race might have technologies of this sort that were hundreds of not many thousands of years advanced to what we have. Thusly, even if one were to ignore “divinity” or take “all powerful” and “creating the universe” as…
.. exaggerations- an alien race with the ability to reach earth at all thousands of years ago would imply a superior ability to avoid detection if they so chose. So if we do then accept the concept of omnipotence for the purpose of discussion- then it is entirely reasonable that such s being could choose to be detected or not as suited them.
So I mean- again- I’m not here to say what is what. People can believe as they like, I’m just saying that one is on tenuous ground and at risk of looking quite foolish when they take a stance of intellectual superiority from a position which is easily upended by simple reason or fact.
We have cameras and yet there are all sorts of things that happen and don’t get put on film, the world is perhaps less mysterious than in the past but we are still finding species we never knew existed in remote forests and the deep ocean and sometimes even populated well traveled areas. We’ve made fairly recent observations of behaviors in various insects and even dogs and cats which despite living in proximity to humans for thousands of years and being the subject of study and attention- we can still find “undocumented” behaviors and novel things.
To be clear- I am not arguing that these events be taken as proof of some divine miracle- the point is that we do in fact have photographs and/or documented and verifiable evidence of phenomenon…
So I mean- again- I’m not here to say what is what. People can believe as they like, I’m just saying that one is on tenuous ground and at risk of looking quite foolish when they take a stance of intellectual superiority from a position which is easily upended by simple reason or fact.