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Comment author: jacob_cannell 26 January 2011 12:29:34AM -1 points [-]

Evidence allows one to dissociate theories and rule out those incompatible with observational history.

The best current fit theory to our current observational history is the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang to now according to physics.

If you take that theory it also rather clearly shows a geometric acceleration of local complexity and predicts (vaguely) Singularity-type events as the normal endpoints of technological civilizations.

Thus the theory also necessarily predicts not one universe, but an entire set of universes embedded in a hierarchy starting with a physical parent universe.

Our current observational history is compatible with being in any of these pocket universes, and thus we are unlikely to be so lucky as to be in the one original parent universe.

Thus our universe in all likelihood was literally created by a super-intelligence in a parent universe.

We don't need any new evidence to support this conclusion, as it's merely an observation derived from our current best theory.