From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Wed Nov 13 1996 - 18:32:47 MST
At 08:54 AM 11/13/96 UT, David Musick wrote:
>
>These are all very big maybies, and I have no evidence for or against the God
>Theory or even any reason why it would be useful to explain any phenomenon,
>except possibly for the fact of our existence itself.
It would provide an explanation for our existence only by pushing back the
problem a step. We exist because (God) super-aliens running our universe on
a computer created us. But why (how) do these aliens exist. Since
postulating such beings only adds to the number of entities to be explained,
methodologically it's best not to postulate them, unless there are
independent reasons to think they exist.
Max
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