It's Simply the Best

That's what science shows us. The simpler the explanation the more likely it is to be the true explanation or the right explanation. What makes a solution simple?

. It proposes few entities

. It proposes few kinds of entity

. It obeys Occam's razor - “Do not multiply entities needlessly.”

. It has a minimum number of laws

. Those laws posses the simplest mathematical form.

Think of this when atheists try to get rid of one Creator God as cause by suggesting an infinite number of universes that regress infinitely into the past, each with a possible type of world - one of which just happens to be our own. Or compare the idea of Creator God with any of the other dozens of complicated and ultimately unworkable Atheist Origin of the Universe Mythologies.

Of course, the simplest theory of all is that Nothing exists, or at least existed. The Theory of Nothing says that if nothing exists, there wouldn't be any laws of physics, and nothing for those laws to act upon.

If the simplest proposition is the right proposition then the Theory of Nothing should be most truthful proposition possible, and the existence of Nothing should be our most likely reality.

However, instead of Nothing we have what is perhaps an infinitely huge mathematically precise, life supporting, moral universe filled to every conceivable nook and cranny with everything humans can imagine and more.

As Richard Swinburne has said, “It is extraordinary that there should exist anything at all. Surely the most natural state of affairs is simply nothing; no universe, no God, nothing. But there is something. And so many things. Maybe chance could have thrown up the odd electron. But so many particles! There is a complexity, particularity, and infinitude about the universe that cries out for explanation.”

Is There a God?

As humans who want to understand our existence, this fact of “so many things,” (est. 10^80 particles), let alone anything at all should cause us to ask “Why?”

Now, atheist driven science tells us that one day we will discover a unified theory of physics or The Theory of Everything and this will end forever the “nonsense” of speculating the existence of an “outside of nature” (Supernatural) creator or cause. The Theory of Everything will explain that gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force all have one single underlying force.

That sounds nice. And it will certainly be fascinating, but so what? If science discovers such a force, what exactly will that prove? Then we'll ask, what caused that force to exist, and what caused the cause of that force to exist, and so on. We will still not know where this law nor the components of this law came from. And that's not the main problem. The main problem is:

. The Principle of Sufficient Reason says that every fact has an explanation – but

. The Theory of Nothingness is the only principle that completely obeys or fulfils the Principle of Sufficient Reason. It is the simplest and truest theory. Yet the Theory of Nothing obviously fails. It is obviously false. What's more -

. Any theory of this world, even the Theory of Everything will fail the test of Sufficient Reason.

Well, not exactly. The Theory of Everything will not fail the Principle of Sufficient Reason if we accept the one thing that all atheists refuse to accept. (See my July post “atheists and 2 + 2 = 5”). 

The simplest universe of all is the one that has God as Cause. Not an infinite multi-verse, not an oscillating universe, not a bubble universe or one that comes from imaginary space and imaginary time. To suggest that an infinite number of unexplained and unexplainable universes is simpler than one Creator is ludicrous. The simplest universe is one like ours where space / time, matter / energy were brought into being, ex nihilo (from literally nothing) and the laws of physics were in place at Planck time; a universe brought into existence by an eternal Creator God.