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To: snarks_when_bored
The nihilist holds that all is permitted. The multiverse theorist holds that all that accords with the laws of inflation and quantum mechanics is permitted. Either way, though, the notion that there's a deity that lays down and subsequently enforces a unique moral law fades away.

The diety fades away in part because of the concept of infinity, that being, if the diety created the universe, who created the diety? However, the same concept of infinity raises the same question of where did all the energy/matter in the universe/multiverse come from?

47 posted on 01/15/2007 8:41:54 PM PST by fso301
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To: fso301
...where did all the energy/matter in the universe/multiverse come from?

Ex nihilo. If nothingness is unstable, there is a non-zero (albeit terrifyingly miniscule) probability for a patch of negative pressure energy to come into being; once that happens, the process of inflation gets underway and extends to spatial infinity and towards temporal (future, at least) eternity, giving birth to infinitely many bubble universes along the way.

48 posted on 01/15/2007 8:51:17 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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