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    The hidden simplicity within the universe (simple early universe and simple micro-level structure) is evidence against omni-theism relative to source physicalism

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    • 1.Omni-theism posits a God who could directly create any complexity without needing to embed simplicity as a generative substrate.
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    • 2.If God's creative act is sufficient explanation for complexity, the additional structure of a simple generative physical layer is explanatorily redundant on omni-theism.
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    • 3.Source physicalism, unlike omni-theism, has a structural commitment to bottom-up emergence that makes simple micro-level architecture a predicted necessity, not a contingent feature.
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    • 1.On Swinburne's own principle of parsimony, omni-theism should predict the simplest possible universe God needs to create, not a universe with an additional layer of simple physical structure beneath complex appearances.
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    • 2.The nested simplicity found in physics—simple laws, simple initial conditions, simple particle ontology—constitutes a distinctive explanatory architecture that mirrors physicalist prediction more closely than theistic creation ex nihilo.
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    • 1.The universe we directly experience is extremely complex, but underlying this complexity is a simpler early universe from which complexity arose
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    • 2.The contemporary universe at the micro-level consists of a relatively small number of particle types in a relatively small number of states
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    • 3.Given a complex universe, this hidden simplicity is exactly what source physicalism would predict, because complexity cries out for explanation in terms of something simpler
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    For example, even if omni-theism is supported by the general fact that the universe is complex, one should not ignore the more specific fact, discovered by scientists, that underlying this complexity at the level at which we experience the universe, is a much simpler early universe from which this complexity arose, and also a much simpler contemporary universe at the micro-level, one consisting of a relatively small number of different kinds of particles all of which exist in one of a relatively
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