The Multiverse and Divine Creation

Religions

Michael Almeida¹ 

[1] Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA;

关键词: creation;    philosophy of religion;    multiverses;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rel8120258

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

I provide the account of divine creation found in multiverse theorists Donald Turner, Klaas Kraay, and Tim O’Connor. I show that the accounts Kraay and Turner offer are incoherent. God does not survey all possible worlds and necessarily actualize those universes in the (on balance) good worlds or the worthy worlds. If God necessarily actualizes the multiverse, we have no idea which universes are parts of that multiverse. I show next that Tim O’Connor’s multiverse account of creation is also incoherent. I argue that a preferable multiverse would include a much greater variety of universes than are included in Turner, Kraay or O’Connor. In the last section I offer some concluding remarks.

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