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sidestreet
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I am participating in an atheist/theist forum and don't have a physics background.
An idea is
- everything we are aware of is within the cosmos
- hence logic, or any process susceptible to logic, also only exists within the cosmos
- ergo the universe was probably created by means we would find irrational, e.g. love
- a creator god is by definition outside the cosmos
- etc.
Whether this is a scientific hypothesis would seem to rely on the possibility of one day creating, from scratch, a universe in a test tube. Depending on any special pleading (starting environment, etc.) it would then be falsified.
Does the idea have a formal name, can it be disproved more easily, and is it madness writ large?
(If this would have been better placed elsewhere then apologies all round)
An idea is
- everything we are aware of is within the cosmos
- hence logic, or any process susceptible to logic, also only exists within the cosmos
- ergo the universe was probably created by means we would find irrational, e.g. love
- a creator god is by definition outside the cosmos
- etc.
Whether this is a scientific hypothesis would seem to rely on the possibility of one day creating, from scratch, a universe in a test tube. Depending on any special pleading (starting environment, etc.) it would then be falsified.
Does the idea have a formal name, can it be disproved more easily, and is it madness writ large?
(If this would have been better placed elsewhere then apologies all round)