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Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??

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Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by BlakeAntonio   » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:55 am

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I find it odd that both Arcana and Sharona seem to only have a single portal each, whereas just about every other connected universe seems to have two or more.

How did the multiverse 'know' that these two inhabited 'verses only needed one portal, and that they were to be the 'starting point' for civilized exploration?

And how is it that the portals, with 13.8 BILLION years to pick from to come into existence, seemed to wait until the last few hundred years to trigger the start of what is clearly an ongoing process?

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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by Robert_A_Woodward   » Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:19 am

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BlakeAntonio wrote:I find it odd that both Arcana and Sharona seem to only have a single portal each, whereas just about every other connected universe seems to have two or more.

How did the multiverse 'know' that these two inhabited 'verses only needed one portal, and that they were to be the 'starting point' for civilized exploration?

And how is it that the portals, with 13.8 BILLION years to pick from to come into existence, seemed to wait until the last few hundred years to trigger the start of what is clearly an ongoing process?

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The only universes we have seen (with one exception) are on being used in the conflict; they have to have at least 2 portals to be used. The universe used as a hideout could be a dead-end after all.
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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by BlakeAntonio   » Tue Aug 25, 2020 4:57 am

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I find it odd that both Arcana and Sharona seem to only have a single portal each, whereas just about every other connected universe seems to have two or more. How did the multiverse 'know' that these two inhabited 'verses only needed one portal, and that they were to be the 'starting point' for civ...

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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by Castenea   » Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:45 pm

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What I find interesting that the portals seem to have opened on both home worlds at relatively similar timeframes.
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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by Joat42   » Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:50 am

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I seem to remember that there are "dead-end" chains mentioned in the books. Am I wrong?

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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by Louis R   » Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:07 am

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Was going to say the same thing. Just checked the maps, and none are shown there, but I'm pretty sure they're mentioned on the Sharonan side at least.

I'm also fairly sure that there's a comment from Himself to the effect that what's going on with the gates is indeed _not_ random.

Joat42 wrote:I seem to remember that there are "dead-end" chains mentioned in the books. Am I wrong?
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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by Joat42   » Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:13 pm

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Louis R wrote:I'm also fairly sure that there's a comment from Himself to the effect that what's going on with the gates is indeed _not_ random.

Well, not random doesn't imply ID - it can just mean that the gate-progression is determined by some dimensional interplay based on the physics of each world. It can even be based on the golden section/angle which re-occurs everywhere in nature.

Of course, from our perspective as readers the Multiverse is definitely created by ID, aka rfc ;).

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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by kylegreewon   » Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:33 am

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BlakeAntonio wrote:I find it odd that both Arcana and Sharona seem to only have a single portal each, whereas just about every other connected universe seems to have two or more.

How did the multiverse 'know' that these two inhabited 'verses only needed one portal, and that they were to be the 'starting point' for civilized exploration?

And how is it that the portals, with 13.8 BILLION years to pick from to come into existence, seemed to wait until the last few hundred years to trigger the start of what is clearly an ongoing process?

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evidence for intelligent design would be if there was no lineage between species, they sprang fully formed in the historical record all at the same time; if there were no explainable causal chain for the formation of the world or life; if animal biology followed arbitrary patterns or varied widely in ways that were not at all beneficial to their own survival. In short, Creation would look almost nothing like our present world.
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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by Louis R   » Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:37 pm

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I think you have rather misunderstood the OP's proposition, which is that the Gates are artefacts and that somebody is up to something. No Capital Letters in sight ;)

Whether the purpose of opening the gates when and where they happened was benevolent or malevolent - or in fact completely indifferent to the fates of Sharona and Arcana - or if there is in fact a purpose to them, is a field for massive speculation. Although, as I said earlier, IIRC Himself did make a remark suggesting that the gates are part of a cunning plan.



kylegreewon wrote:evidence for intelligent design would be if there was no lineage between species, they sprang fully formed in the historical record all at the same time; if there were no explainable causal chain for the formation of the world or life; if animal biology followed arbitrary patterns or varied widely in ways that were not at all beneficial to their own survival. In short, Creation would look almost nothing like our present world.
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Re: Is there an Intelligent Design to the Multiverse??
Post by GodYato   » Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:47 pm

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Hey, thanks for doing this forum. It's a great question that is there an intelligent design to the universe or multiverse. I recently came up with an idea with my study and I found out that
in recent decades, many scientists have discovered that our universe is just right for life. To understand this fine-tuning, imagine a control panel with dozens of dials. Also, to allow life, each dial that controls one property of nature must be properly tuned within a narrow range.
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