Hi, yes it sounds like blind faith, but I can't see either any rationnality in the faith that not everything exists... If not everything exists then the reality is more absurd... How a justification for only a small part of possibilities (and only this one) could be found ?
Quentin Le Vendredi 28 Octobre 2005 18:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I guess I'll "break the symmetry" of relative silence on this list > lately. > > I just don't get how it can be rationally justified that you can get > something out of nothing. To me, combining the multiverse with a > selection principle does not explain anything. I see no reason why it > is not mathematically equivalent to our universe appearing out of > nothing. And I see the belief that our universe appeared out of > nothing as just that, a belief. In fact, I believe that. But I don't > see how it makes one iota more rational, "scientific" sense to try to > explain it with a Plenitude and the Anthropic Principle. It's like a > probability argument that poses the existence of as much unobservable > stuff out there as we need, along with the well-behaved unobservable > probability distribution we need, in order to give us a fuzzy feeling > in terms of probability as we know it in our comfortable immediate > surroundings. Sounds like blind faith to me.
