Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself

[Sterben]

i'm wondering if you can help me im an atheist but am struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself it goes something like this.....

If you see an ant crawling across the ground, to the ant, you are his god that could wipe him out at time, he has no intelligence of you or that you exist, for the ant he is as intelligent as he is going to get, and can't even comprehend we exist.

So could we be in the same position as the ant? as far as we can see humans right now are as intelligent as we can get, but growing up we do not have the intelligence capacity to comprehend our surrounding. As children, take a 1 year old or any age under 3-4 we are also at that point, (The same as the ant) as intelligent at THAT time as we are going to get and cannot comprehend to world around us intelligently.

So just the same as the ant, adults at our height point of intelligence, to the toddler we are the Gods. What if we, right NOW are at this point in time, at our current level of intelligence are in the same position as the Ant and Toddler? Could there be an unknown Force, Entity, that just the same as we are unknown to the ant and the toddler to his or her world, that is looking at us as we look at the ant?

As its happening right now to the ant and toddler, this is proof it can, and is happening, It doesn't seem that extraordinary something is looking at us in the same way,

Would love to hear what you think,

Thanks

         You pose a very interesting question, but at the same time an irrelevant one. The major issue I see is that we've looked for answers about the how it happened, this line of inquiry has caused so many problems over the centuries. How many must die in pointless conflicts over such arguments?
               
          You answered your question when you said "So could we be in the same position as the ant? as far as we can see humans right now are as intelligent as we can get, but growing up we do not have the intelligence capacity to comprehend our surrounding. As children, take a 1 year old or any age under 3-4 we are also at that point, (The same as the ant) as intelligent at THAT time as we are going to get and cannot comprehend to world around us intelligently."

        In essence, as we grow and gain intelligence we become our own gods. If you do not wind up brainwashed, you realize the power you have. If you wanted to steal a van and crash it into your ex's house, that sounds like a power of god to me in many ways. There is no ultimate creator, If your a really smart god, you realize the currency of power is fame, the currency of influence is being famous, and the final currency that runs the universe is control. It's the crypto currency know has science that is so often abused.

       Let me ask you something, would mind being a part of hypothetical thought experiment?

        Five people are given a village of twenty very uneducated each, your are given time period twenty years to raise your village as you fit. The setting is decent size island with limited resources. How do you carry yourself along side your village? Also please be honest, even it's interrupted as immoral actions.