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TH-000058 · Metaphysics

Maximal Greatness compatible with a multiverse

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TH-000043 claims that a necessary, maximally great being best explains the universe's existence, implying exclusivity. Demonstrating compatibility with a multiverse challenges the exclusivity of that explanatory claim.

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Is there a god?TH-000001
A Priori Justification of Belief in a Maximally Great BeingTH-000002
Incoherence of Maximal GreatnessTH-000003
Evidential Problem of Evil Challenges a Maximally Great BeingTH-000004
Maximal Greatness Incompatible with Libertarian Free WillTH-000005
Divine Hiddenness as Evidence Against a Maximally Great BeingTH-000006
Objective Moral Values Imply a Maximally Great BeingTH-000007
The universe has a cause of its existence.TH-000008
Divine Hiddenness Compatible with God via Soul‑Making TheodicyTH-000009
Fine-tuning of the universe provides significant evidence for a designer.TH-000010
Some form of consciousness survives bodily death.TH-000011
Humans have free will.TH-000012
Consciousness is fully explained by physical brain processes.TH-000013
Moral truths are objective.TH-000014
Personal identity consists in psychological continuity.TH-000015
Life has objective meaning independent of human projection.TH-000016
Current artificial systems can be conscious.TH-000017
Death is not bad for the person who dies.TH-000018
Truth is relative to a perspective or culture.TH-000019
The existence of the universe has an explanation.TH-000020
The good life consists in virtuous activity.TH-000021
Every rational agent has a reason to be moral.TH-000022
Knowledge of the external world is possible.TH-000023
Humans are naturally disposed toward goodness.TH-000024
Present generations have obligations to future people.TH-000025
Happiness is the highest good.TH-000026
Intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.TH-000027
Humans have an immaterial soul.TH-000028
Time is not fundamental.TH-000029
Every event happens for a purpose.TH-000030
Scientific knowledge is reliable.TH-000031
Animals have moral status.TH-000032
Artificially intelligent systems can have moral status.TH-000033
Severe economic inequality is unjust.TH-000034
Some questions have clear, checkable answers.TH-000035
The square root of 2 is irrational.TH-000036
There is no largest prime number.TH-000037
A valid deductive argument can have false premises.TH-000038
The Earth orbits the Sun.TH-000039
Human greenhouse-gas emissions are the primary driver of recent global warming.TH-000040
Vaccines cause autism.TH-000041
Antibiotics are effective against viral infections.TH-000042
A necessary, maximally great being best explains the universe's existenceTH-000043
An abstract necessary entity can explain the universe's existenceTH-000044
Reformed epistemology: belief in God as properly basicTH-000045
Objective moral facts require a divine foundation.TH-000046
Divine omniscience conflicts with moral responsibilityTH-000047
The problem of evil provides strong evidence against an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God.TH-000048
Credible religious testimony offers prima facie justification for belief in a maximally great beingTH-000049
Multiverse hypothesis better explains fine‑tuning than divine designTH-000050
Divine hiddenness defeats properly basic theistic beliefTH-000051
Divine hiddenness as preservation of human epistemic autonomyTH-000052
Divine hiddenness explained by the optimal‑world theodicyTH-000053
Non-theistic grounding of objective moral factsTH-000054
Reliability of divine intuition as a properly basic beliefTH-000055
Maximal Greatness is Coherent Under Modal RealismTH-000056
Divine hiddenness provides significant evidence against theism.TH-000057
Maximal Greatness compatible with a multiverseTH-000058
Uniqueness of Maximal Greatness: No Two Maximally Great Beings Can CoexistTH-000059
Religious experience can provide justified belief in God.TH-000060
The Legality of EuthanasiaTH-000061
Divine Foreknowledge Compatible with Human Moral ResponsibilityTH-000062
Non‑causal Divine Foreknowledge Compatibilizes Omniscience and Libertarian FreedomTH-000063
The Big Bang and the Possibility of a Future Big CrunchTH-000064
Irreducible consciousness implies a transcendent creatorTH-000065
Objective Moral Values Grounded in Non‑Personal Abstract EntitiesTH-000066
Religious pluralism challenges properly basic theistic beliefTH-000067

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