I often say that I believe in God as much as a Nonsupernaturalist can. I define nonsupernaturalism as making physicists the arbiters of what is. There are many nonsupernatural gods. First, there is the miracle of the existence of the universe itself, including the existence of consciousness. In my belief, this is the one miracle for all time. (I imagine the one miracle as impersonal. I am not a deist about the existence of the universe.) Because the laws of physics are within the universe, the existence of the universe itself cannot violate the laws of physics and so counts as nonsupernatural. The laws of physics are one of the nonsupernatural gods. I personify the laws of physics as "Father Physics" to complement the traditional personification of "Mother Nature." In my view, Father Physics, through the vastness of the universe created by eternal inflation, with inflation biased toward patches with low entropy, gives rise to life. Abiogenesis, in my view, is so unlikely that life has arisen only once in the entire visible universe, but by the vastness of the universe has arisen innumerable times elsewhere in unreachable parts of the universe. (I believe the speed of light is a genuine limit. No faster-than-light travel or time travel.) Given the extraordinary abiogenesis in our bit of the universe, Mother Nature has created us through evolution. Mother Nature is in many ways a cruel goddess. But through her relentless culling, she has honed many extraordinary species, of which we are not the least. Here is something to put your faith in: you are an extraordinary creature who is the product of a lineage that for billions of years, on all your ancestral lines, had every creature bear progeny. Though chance had a role every step along the way, that success was only in part due to transitory luck. Luck has also given durable capabilities aplenty, including depths that most of us have hardly begun to plumb. Father Physics and Mother Nature are the gods we're from. The god within is the potential for wisdom you have in your own brain and the rest of your body. I call this god within your Sage, following Shirzad Chamine. Then there are the gods between: our love, human creativity, the judgments of women and men that hold our society together and hone the next generations. Father Physics and Mother Nature are amoral. The god within and gods between that I mentioned so far are primarily good, but there are also evil gods and devils within. "... the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being," as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago. Following Shirzad Chamine, I call the everyday bad gods within "saboteurs." And fascism, totalitarian socialism, and many forms of populism are evil gods between. Finally, there are the gods to come: each persons vision of the good—the good society, the good human being. In our culture, an important part of our collective picture of the good is encoded in images of heaven and in the virtues we attribute to Jesus and other revered figures. "What would Jesus do?" is very meaningful far beyond what the historical Jesus would do, because of this projection of the good onto Jesus. Similar projections occur for the Buddha, Lincoln, etc., more or less disciplined by historical facts depending on how many historical facts there are. That is many nonsupernatural gods. Some of the nonsupernatural gods deserve worship more than others. Though I'm not sure I understand "worship" in this context, I'm open to the possibility.

Overall, I see as an extremely important project the construction of powerful nonsupernatural religion. I am a Unitarian-Universalist, because that is a functioning agnostic religion that readily provides a home for nonsupernatural religion along with other religious beliefs. However, I do not consider it to have achieved *powerful* nonsupernatural religion.

One of the great contributors to developing nonsupernatural religion is Jordan Peterson. Though his X feed is, in my opinion, generally low quality and derivative, his books are excellent and a great start toward nonsupernatural religion. I honor him for contributing so much toward powerful nonsupernatural religion. Note that he resolutely refuses to say he believes in God, though often pressed on that point. He says that he "acts as if there were a God", which is entirely consistent with supernatural religion of the sort I am describing.

Note: I posted this first on X: https://x.com/mileskimball/status/2112945142294319386. If there are comments or reactions, I expect most of them to show up there.