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The Mystery of Existence: Where did natural environments and complex organisms came from? What is the origin of life ? Part 2 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes

Unbelievable?

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The Basics of Physics

I disagree about whether the laws of physics are plus the universe on which they operate is a simple thing, because it consists of a very large number of things. We're looking for an entity to whose existence there are zero limits, and we can postulate very few properties from whom all the others follow. So simplicity is a matter of postulating few entities, only one, simple powers, and only powers are simple power.

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