Cosmologic philosophy: Weinberg on quantum theory (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, January 07, 2017, 13:43 (2877 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Even our solar system is highly unusual compared to the ones currently discovered. But we can only know what is present in a small corner of our galaxy, two thirds of the way out on the second spiral arm. Of course other galaxies could have Earths, and God could be in charge of all of it.

I’m surprised by your final comment. In the past, you have always insisted that God IS in charge of all of it, indeed that he created all of it, and that all of it was created with a view to producing humans. My complaint has been that I don’t see the relevance of billions of other solar systems that come and go, if all he wanted to do was produce humans. (Though I think you also acknowledge the possibility that there may be other forms of life out there.)