[exmarine]

Several of the examples I offered up do not fit into any of these four catagories. Our universe could be a balancing shadow of some more important thing similar to a universe, and whose laws merely reflect an act of dumping to maintain stasis in the xverses--in other words, we're a sewer plant. Our universe could be tied in an endless loop by, amongst other means, time's beginning and end being identical events.

Your speculations are non-rational as they are not based on anything other than your wild imagination. The only rational explanations are the ones I listed. No amount of chimerical conjecture will change that.

[js1138]

My post #5162 should have been addressed to you.

[donh]

Your speculations are non-rational as they are not based on anything other than your wild imagination. The only rational explanations are the ones I listed. No amount of chimerical conjecture will change that.

Perhaps, than, you can tell the the essential difference, in that regard, between Berkeley's conjecture that the universe was imagined up by someone, vs. the conjecture that the universe was imagined up by God.