"God" was brought into being at a time when people only knew about the continent they lived on, they did not know about space, the earth was flat, the Earth was the center of the universe. "God" has taken the place of this ifinity, it has brought meaning to what people could not understand. The argument about .999~ = 1 is that it will eventually stop, which it doesn't, it goes on for an infinite length, just like how the universe has been expanding and contracting for an infinite ammount of time. "Infinite" is hard to grasp, so God takes its place. So god does exist, but its existance is just a placeholder for the infinite amount of time, not some supernatural being.
If it can be argued that .999~ = 1. Then could we all accept that the "big bang" has actually been going on for an infinite ammount of time? It has already been proven that the universe is expanding and contracting, just currently it is expanding more then it contracts, so it grows, eventually the universe will reach its limit of expansion and begin to collapse in on itself, like a supernova. Before reaching the focal point and exploding outward again, in an cycle that has been going on an infinite ammount of times, and will continue for an infinite amount of time.
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