RE: Empirical Evidence for Multiverse
October 16, 2015 at 2:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2015 at 2:22 pm by JuliaL.)
Question for Chad:
My hypothetical-
Premise: the ultraverse is of truly infinite extent and entirely random (the character of every portion is entirely independent of the character of any other portion).
There will be n-dimensional volumes of arbitrary extent (including infinite) which, though random, appear ordered. They would be exceedingly improbable and uncommon but remember, the ultraverse is truly infinite.
The anthropic principle insures that we can only be in one of these volumes.
My question to you is:
How does God know He is not also in one of these volumes?
Examination either yields ordered or random data. Ordered data shows one to be in a seemingly ordered volume, random data shows nothing.
Science is satisfied with local and tentative explanations, theology is not and fails thereby.
My hypothetical-
Premise: the ultraverse is of truly infinite extent and entirely random (the character of every portion is entirely independent of the character of any other portion).
There will be n-dimensional volumes of arbitrary extent (including infinite) which, though random, appear ordered. They would be exceedingly improbable and uncommon but remember, the ultraverse is truly infinite.
The anthropic principle insures that we can only be in one of these volumes.
My question to you is:
How does God know He is not also in one of these volumes?
Examination either yields ordered or random data. Ordered data shows one to be in a seemingly ordered volume, random data shows nothing.
Science is satisfied with local and tentative explanations, theology is not and fails thereby.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?