DiscoverUncertaintyThe Multiverse Supports Belief in God | #47 Dr. Klaas Kraay
The Multiverse Supports Belief in God | #47 Dr. Klaas Kraay

The Multiverse Supports Belief in God | #47 Dr. Klaas Kraay

Update: 2025-08-26
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Dr. Klaas Kraay explains that the multiverse, rather than serving as an alternative to God, actually supports belief in God by undermining two atheistic arguments: the problem of evil and the problem of no best world.

Check out Klaas' paper explaining the theistic multiverse, "Theism, Possible Worlds, and the Multiverse."

Also see my paper looking at the relationship between theistic multiverses and modern science, "Does science undermine the theistic multiverse?"

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:07 Multiverses in cosmology

00:06:36 The problem of no best world

00:13:15 The wine analogy

00:19:44 Two versions of the problem

00:24:20 Theistic multiverse solution

00:32:10 Objection - Duplication

00:37:27 1st response - Limit the multiverse to kinds

00:43:53 2nd response - More is not always better

00:49:50 What's more valuable, God or the multiverse?

00:58:39 The problem of evil

01:18:30 What got Klaas into philosophy?

01:20:11 Does philosophy make progress?

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The Multiverse Supports Belief in God | #47 Dr. Klaas Kraay

The Multiverse Supports Belief in God | #47 Dr. Klaas Kraay

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