Timeline for Religion After the Discovery of a Multiverse
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| Apr 30, 2016 at 2:04 | comment | added | Bug J. | Humans insignificant if there are others ? Are you and I insignificant as people just because there are other humans ?? Everyone may have significance on their own.. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 13:17 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | And of course as I've said before an infinite multiverse means that there is almost certainly a infinite number of universes identical to our own. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @kaay in this scenario I'm not sure what gaps would be left for them to stick god into. Theists may try to claim our particular universe is created, but statistically our universe would be an inevitability and our universe doesn't appear particularly special. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:17 | comment | added | kaay | @vakus-drake Actually, I think people who use 'god of the gaps' arguments would just rejoice at more gaps to stuff him into. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 9:02 | comment | added | Mourdos | @BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft I would guess that this is because Christianity is the religion with which he is familiar. As one of the worlds major religions an answer from this perspective is still a partial answer. I'm not saying if it is a good answer or not, I'm just saying that it does attempt to address the question. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 6:26 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | What does this have to do with the question? Who said anything about Christianity? | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 3:49 | comment | added | Thucydides | Even within a multiverse construct, there is no reason to suppose that THIS universe isn't created (the Big Bang theory does presuppose there was a time this universe did not exist), and as Bug J is saying, a Multiverse provides some sort of context for other elements of the Christian faith. Much of the question really comes down to how this "evidence" is interpreted and fitted into existing belief systems. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 21:00 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @DaaaahWhoosh I suppose they'd have to say stuff like that. However the main problem is that it makes humans seem insignificant given our universe isn't really special in any way. There's also the the issue that it makes it impossible to feasibly argue design if there is probably going to be an infinite number of universes like our own. The main thing this scenario does is it makes various god of the gaps argument not work very well anymore. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | DaaaahWhoosh | @VakusDrake I don't think there is much in Christianity about when and how Heaven was created, just how Earth was made, and some fan-fiction about Hell. God was there in the 'beginning', but nothing says that Heaven and other various places (to which Jesus could have been referring) didn't already exist as well, or how long before the 'beginning' God had been around. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 19:50 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | But the idea that existence never had a beginning does run counter to the idea of it having been created, something that has always existed can't have been created that's where the conflict lies. | |
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| Aug 19, 2015 at 19:44 | history | answered | Bug J. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |