(March 1, 2017 at 7:53 am)SteveII Wrote:(February 28, 2017 at 8:57 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yes, we are.
But Krauss's theory is not meant to answer that. It is only meant to answer why our universe, in its present form, exists.
Problem is, your answer does not have any explanatory power. It has plenty of explanatory scope, but no power.
Explaining a mystery (why the universe exists), by appealing to a bigger mystery (a universe creating god), does not actually EXPLAIN anything. And it only creates more questions. Positing a panacea to explain a mystery, explains nothing.
In other words, a hypothesis that explains everything explains nothing.
Inductively, to escape the logical absurdity that physical matter always existed, what we are left with as an explanation is a non-physical, timeless, un-caused, force that was powerful enough to bring matter into existence out of nothing.
The problem that I see constantly here is that most of you are missing the fact that the case for God is a cumulative case. No one thing is meant to be the defining argument. Here is just the list from Natural Theology (as opposed to revealed theology in the Bible or personal experience in people's lives)
a. God is the best explanation why anything at all exists.
b. God is the best explanation of the origin of the universe.
c. God is the best explanation of the fine-tuning of the universe for intelligent life.
d. God is the best explanation of intentional states of consciousness.
e. God is the best explanation of objective moral values and duties.
Only if by 'explanation' you mean something impossible to disprove. But not everyone is comfortable actually embracing bullshit for the sake of unassailability.
