(November 11, 2014 at 9:31 am)His_Majesty Wrote: A distinction has to be made between just "our" universe, and the "entire cosmos", which would include all natural reality regardless of where it is. When Guth says "I suspect the universe didn't have a beginning", he is talking about the entire cosmos...all natural reality...but he does believe that OUR universe had a beginning.
He did say "Universe", not "the entire cosmos".
And as far as we know, "the entire cosmos" may be the Universe. Whatever lies beyond it, if anything, is unknown. This is a known unknown.
Even, granting your terminology correction, how does that change anything?
The entire cosmos, with its capacity to, somehow (quantum foam?), generate Universes, being of infinite space-time does what for the god hypothesis?
Are you wanting to propose that god is actually an extra-universal alien with the capacity to consciously generate and control a whole Universe?
Another god hypothesis... more things to prove. This is an unknown unknown.
If that would be the case, then it should, in theory, be possible to show that such a being exists.... and is possibly accompanied by other such beings. There we go back to polytheism!
Actually... now it would be polyalienism.
