That's one of the deepest questions humans have asked, and there's no answer I can give you with certainty—nobody can.

Here's an honest sketch of the landscape:

- **Arguments people find compelling for God**: the universe seems fine-tuned for life, something rather than nothing exists, widespread religious/mystical experiences, moral intuitions feeling objective, the apparent contingency of the universe.

- **Arguments people find compelling against**: the problem of suffering and evil, lack of empirical evidence, religious diversity (which god?), natural explanations increasingly covering what gods once explained, hiddenness of any such being.

- **Where thoughtful people land**: theists, atheists, agnostics, and people who think the question itself is malformed—all include brilliant philosophers and scientists. It's not a question that splits cleanly along intelligence or education.

My honest take: it's a genuinely open question. The answer likely depends a lot on what you mean by "god"—a personal deity who intervenes in history is a very different claim than a ground-of-being or a deistic first cause.

What draws you to the question? I'm happy to dig into any specific angle—philosophical, scientific, or personal.
