Debate: Does God exist?
Side: No

Perhaps they are not of this dimension? Perhaps, they got 'caught' somehow partially in their dimension, partially in ours? (this would be a non-supernatural argument for their existence).If they are caught between dimensions, would they be on earth enough to leave a footprint?Extradimensional space is still in the realm of conjecture. Hypotheses have only just begun to surface which could test for the existence of it.So I wouldn't advise making ad hoc explanations involving extra dimensions. At this stage you'd need to provide mathematical theory supporting the idea, and hypotheses which could test for its existence in the LHC.Tell me how.I can't. The object isn't defined in a way that would allow me to make such predictions.Even for hundreds of millions of eyewitnesses?Mass hysteria, and hallucinations have occurred. Individual reports have a reputation of being unreliable. So therefore if you're prepared to investigate eyewitness accounts, you have to wade through them.Du bist wahnhafteLuegen! Der Welt ist verrueckt.Perhaps there is no such thing as mentally sound, but rather normalcy. Anybody who goes beyond society's expectation of normalcy is, therefore, insane and delusional.This reminds me of what my Sociology instructor said nine years ago "We all have dysfunctional families, what matters is how dysfunctional."In any case you're wrong, because consensus doesn't define reality. If the world agreed that sacrificing a child every Tuesday was sane, that wouldn't make it so.Now, the only person who actually knew what they were talking about was sent to a psychiatric ward !What makes you think that the people who are there now deserve to be there?I imagine that I am unqualified to give an opinion, being that I'm not a psychiatrist. However since I don't want to cop out, I imagine that each person in the institution gets there by being a threat to himself.You seem to be of the belief that only stupid people can possibly believe in God. Therefore, I must ask you, were the following people idiots?No. I don't believe that. I believe I said that believers can be stupid, but it's demonstrably untrue that only stupid people become religious. The fact seems to be that the more intelligent you are, while being religious, the harder it is to convince you otherwise, because you'll find more and more tenuous and elaborate justifications for believing. The people you listed were not stupid, but they all had wrong reasons for believing.One of the most common arguments against religion that I find on here is that people who are religious have lower IQs.That's incorrect. The case is that statistically religion is associated with lower IQs but that is for populations, it doesn't mean a religious person is unintelligent, but instead that they will tend to not identify as religious.Then, why is it that most of the smartest people to have ever lived believed in the existence of a God? While not all in the Christian God, such as Sidis, many did believe in a higher power.I don't really think you can make such a claim. Besides the problem of sampling intelligent people in the world (many of them are unnoticed), the religions intelligent people identify with are often heterodox, so you have to remember that getting accurate results isn't so easy.Besides, it misses the point that smart people believing in something doesn't make it so.