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Date/Time 25 Feb 2017 3:29:33am
"... most philosophers in the Western tradition, and indeed most of the world's religious traditions, have held that a satisfactory account of the things of greatest concern to human beings requires reference to some transcendent reality."

There is at least one reality that is larger than ourselves, namely the universe itself. I think it entirely plausible that there is something more of which it is part, or that complements it. That surely does not amount to belief in an entity that is recognisably God.

A further question - did/does consciousness come first, or matter, if indeed matter is somehow distinct from consciousness?

None of this takes one remotely near to making a case for God as usually understood within the Christian or Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions. Sure, a mindset that came in some part from the Abrahamic faiths seems to have been favourable for the development of modern science. That does not make some boiled-down version of the beliefs that contributed to that mindset true.