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Old 12-10-2022, 02:33 PM   #39
Andrew66
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Atheists take heed!

Our Observable Universe is more "ordered" than it aught to be, if the Cosmos were governed ONLY by random interactions of matter and energy fields in the view of the laws of physics!

Typically cosmologists argue that there must therefore be a multiverse, where the vast number of alternative universes are so great that our Observable Universe is just one expected member of the Multiverse's infinite (or near infinite) diversity. This is commonly referred to as the anthropic principle.

But the cosmologists have another problem which keeps them up at night. Notwithstanding the above, if the state of our Observable Universe were ONLY dictated by random statistical outcomes (answerable by a multiverse), then it would be theoretically much more likely that we humans (as a complicated evolved species, with a prolonged consciousness) aught to be Boltzman brains! A Boltzman brain is a randomly produced, fleeting cosmic consciousness, with a false memory of events, which under incredibly rare circumstances (but much more likely than a Universe which can produce human like life) can randomly manifest for a moment in space.

We are obviously not Boltzman brains (our consciousness last more than a moment), but - that we exist, in complicated human form, is a far more statistically unlikely scenario! This problem is well attested to in modern Cosmology.

One answer to our Observable Universe's unique and incredibly unlikely specificity is that it was Intelligently Designed.

Cosmologists never theorize this way however, as they see it as a lazy God of the Gaps argument, which has historically been a scientific scape goat.

However, if space-time turns out to be infinite in time, and / or in space ( a view held by most modern cosmologists), a maximally supreme consciousness is expected to manifest by inescapable probability (again - see Does Ggod Exist? - Telwell publisher, https://godbornfrominfinity.com).

This provides therefore the substrate and potential for a plausible and reasoned Intelligent Designer!
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