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[Byrnema] might actually learn something
Unfortunately, I haven't. (I submit that this is my fault for still not communicating effectively.)
My main argument is that God is the natural world together with an opinion about the natural world (that it is ordered). If you think this is unjustified, what property must God have that this doesn't have?
For some time, theists have described God as a mind because that was the limit of what we could think for what could result in order. We now understand, through science, that order (and purpose) can self-organize from a complex impersonal system.
I think we should teach theists about complex systems first, before insisting there's no God at all.
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You have me there. We have not yet successfully detonated a black hole.
Small black holes are expected to eventually explode. Large black holes are expected to take longer than the expected life of the universe to evaporate to that point.
Anyway, I'm not a physicist. It's just a handwavy example that maybe there is some technology with solar-scale or galaxy-scale destructive power. When all the humans lived on one island, they didn't imagine they could one day destroy the Earth.
Then the example is pointless. A weapon powerful enough to cause extinction galaxy wide is a very big if. It's unlikely there would be, simply because of the massive distances between stars.
Also, if you base your argument (or part of it, anyways) on such an event, it is equally fair to state "if not". And in the case of "if not" (which I imagine to be highly more likely), the argument must end there.
Therefor, it is likely to assume that yes, we could outrun our own destructive tendencies.
At that point in our evolution we had no firm grasp on what "world" even meant, let alone a basic understanding of scale. Now, we do. We also have a basic understanding of the universe, and a method to increase our understanding (Ability to postulate theories, run experiments and collect evidence). When all humans (most likely an ancestor) were contained in one geographic coordinate, none of these things even existed as concepts. There are a few more problems with this comparison, but I'll leave them alone for now, as it does nothing to bring them out.