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To: Heartlander

I believe in God, and not multiverses, but I’m not sure his analogy of the Joker and the Monkey is applicable: you’re intuitively unlikely to believe the monkey’s random selection of keys is what saved you. But what if you woke up and found a billion dead people and you were the only survivor? What if you HAD to ask, “why me?”

Yes, I know we don’t know of countless other universes; In this analogy, the billion dead people represent not a countless other known universes that failed, but the countless other possibilities that wouldn’t result in life.

What Goff DOES plainly accomplish is he creates a much higher bar to assert that Occam’s razor means we should presume the existences of multiverses rather than God.


8 posted on 01/18/2021 6:44:43 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
What Goff DOES plainly accomplish is he creates a much higher bar to assert that Occam’s razor means we should presume the existences of multiverses rather than God.

This is not so. Descartes demonstrated the existence of even the universe we live in is a greater assumption than the existence of God.

17 posted on 01/18/2021 6:51:48 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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