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215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There Something Instead of Nothing?
"I just don't see how positing or something else, as long as it's literally a scientific posit that's supposed to make things happen, gets you any place," he says. "The same kind of question arises about whatever it is that you posited ... And it is like it or not." Theist will say, I can explain this feature of the world by invoking God, but then you haven't explained where God came from and the laws of physics are in an analogous situation here. Einstein was preferring the second of Rose.
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