(February 8, 2022 at 12:49 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The question could (and would) be repeated in the case of a multiverse as well. It's a throwaway objection at any rate.
If we are genuinely concerned about arbitrary or accidental whatsits - then we would be concerned about those issues in any context they present themselves. If we're unconcerned about the arbitrary or accidental nature of a god or a god made universe, we are not genuinely concerned with the real, perceived, or asserted arbitrary or accidental nature of a physical model either.
If a multiverse exists, perhaps it couldn’t have existed in any form other than the form it’s manifestly in. The same could be said about this universe. I don’t personally find “it appears that way,” to be all that persuasive of a reason to take one position over the other.
In any case, as you mentioned, if we can imagine the possibility that a god could have been some other way, or until someone can demonstrate that universes can be some way other than the way they are, then no progress has been made.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
