After watching it, I realized these theodices and other solutions to problems posed by the existence of a god are sufficient to convince me there could be a creator of the universe. By that, I mean philosophy alone is sufficient to convince me I cannot logically convince myself there definitely isn't a force or agent external to the universe which created the universe. Of course, I take possibilities of the simulation argument seriously as well. I don't want to call such a creator a 'god', because gods always have anthropic interests: Earth, humanity, and our fate always figure in the concerns of gods. Unless we have special reason to believe such a being cares about anything in particular in a simulation rather than just running a simulation in general, that simulator isn't anything like a god. I don't want to call it a god for pragmatic reasons; I'm afraid, for example, if we somehow discovered we really are living in a simulation and deigned to call it a god, theists of all stripes would come out of the woodwork to claim and rationalize the simulator as proof of their god.
Of course, that I don't think I can reject the existence of all and any gods on principle alone doesn't mean I don't reject the existence of any god in practice. Science and history are sufficient to convince me no particular god of any religion exists, or any religion is true, where philosophy alone fails. I was thinking of something, though: are there good arguments for the existence of any particular god that rule out the existence of all other gods (or particular interpretations of any one god)? For example, theodices resolving the Problem of Evil seem to me they could apply to not just the Christian interpretation of the one God ("Jehovah"), but to the Jewish or Islamic interpretations as well ("YHWH", and "Allah", respectively). Are there are any arguments you've heard, that you couldn't knock down, that favour the existence not just of some god, any god, but a particular god?
