Dr. J. Budziszewski

Yeah, I don't know that it's that much worse to say that he programmed me than that he created me.

In one sense, the real question is not that.

The real question is,

Am I really a person?

Am I really a substance?

Am I really an individual substance of a rational nature?

Am I responsible for my actions?

Do my decisions have meaning?

And whether it came back to many, many, many, many... This is similar to the argument that people make about multiverses and things like that.

They say, oh, your argument to a first cause presupposes that there's only one universe and there are many universes.

No.

I mean, that's silly.

If there are many universes, then universe is not even the right word for the one that we're in.

It's only a sub-universe.

The real universe is the multiverse.

Okay, where did the multiverse come from?

For which we have no evidence.

For which we have no evidence, by the way.

There are a few physicists who claim that perhaps we could have evidence of that, but it's very speculative.

Most of them view the other universes as things of which even in principle we could not have observational evidence.