Systematically Dismantling Atheism

[IDScience]

ID, your main problem (among many, but most have been elucidated by other posters already, so I'm only addressing this one) is that you get to "God-like intelligence" and then jump to "God." Sure, at least one hopefully rational atheist (the only one I can speak for) believes that there is a (small) non-zero possibility that there is an entity somewhere in this universe that has intelligence that far surpasses any human's.

Sure, you can incrementally argue intelligence up from a human standard. But you can't do the same with, say, the ability to create matter or to read minds or the like.

God-like is God as far as the argument is concerned. If something can be God-like (i.e. virtually identical) then for all intense and purposes, it is God.

Tell me why its a "(small) non-zero possibility". Tell me why intelligence and complexity can't continually increase as it has (so you believe) from 5 billion years ago until today?. Is it because if you follow the logical progression of your own evolutionary theory, a being capable of creating a universe and all life in it, becomes an inevitable outcome of the theory?

But I do not believe that this hypothetical god-like intelligence 1) has existed forever, 2) can alter the physical universe through non-physical means, or has any of the other powers that any definition if "god" will possess if that god is sufficiently distinct from, well, a "not-god."

I don't either, I believe God evolved before the BB and became all knowing thus all powerful as a direct result of never being able to die because entropy did not exist