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If basic life forms are probable then we should trust that advanced civilizations are probable. If any advanced civilization probably has increased in destructive capacity faster than defensive capacity, and if any advanced civilization probably creates many worlds like those in its past, then we should trust that an advanced civilization more benevolent than us probably created our world. The alternative is that we probably will go extinct before becoming an advanced civilization. Lincoln Cannon and Joseph West first presented the New God Argument to an audience of approximately 60 persons at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City on 9 August 2008. Nathan Hadfield combined the transcript and slides from the presentation to form this document.