God Likely Exists

Hello: "the reason there is no life to be discovered because of the number of conditions which must be met in order to support life on the planet (i.e. distance from the sun, asteroid belt to protect from asteroids, a planet like Venus to absorb heat from the sun.) and the probability for life keeps shrinking the more scientist find out about the universe, which is why it's unsurprising we have not found any within the observable universe." Your reasoning is correct. The probability for life does shrink due to the variation of cosmological conditions needed to support life. However, this does not lend credence to the "infinite universe" scenario as atheists would say, because that would assume zero repetitive nature in these cosmological conditions across a potentially infinite universe. (By your reasoning, the creation of life is so unique that it only occurs once in an infinite universe, thereby meaning that all other spacetime must necessarily produce other variation, an infinite amount of times) Again using the law of parsimony, this would mean infinite variation over finite variation - so finite variation would be simpler and more rational to assume. This means a repetitive nature to the universe - no matter how varied it was - and would be repeatable life forms (humans/aliens/etc.) across an infinite timespan/scale. The real problem here however, is that a universe with infinite variation capable of sustaining only one form of life across an infinite scale would still have to: A: produce human beings infinitely, due to temporal infinity (B theory would need to be taken here) B: if an A theory of time is taken, (time is finite) - then this would contradict several principles today which imply finite variation to the universe (baryon asymmetry, ratio of matter/anti-matter, expansion of the universe, etc.). The universe does vary, but it cannot vary infinitely or else we would have the infinite paradox as described previously. "And yes while believing in god rather than the multiverse theory is simpler this does not in turn make it the simplest answer. Perhaps the simplest answer would be the universe has a finite time span, but the doesn't account for there being an intelligent being behind its creation" True. But this is the simplest answer we have as of right now, hence making it the most logical "belief" to hold. The universe can only be defined as finite in the context of an/many infinity(ies) (God/multiverses) - or else the universe, being arbitrarily large, would be called infinite. If the universe is finite and there is no God, that would mean one of the properties of the universe must be infinite, then we run into the same problems as asked before. In less abstract terms, just to summarize everything from the last wall of text: Point 1. A finite universe MUST HAVE be bounded by a physical infinity, or else the universe would be infinite. Point 2. An infinite universe cannot exist since it would imply infinities existing everywhere, an infinite amount of times. Conclusion: Point 1 makes partial sense, but God cannot be mathematically understood (the same way infinities cannot be described perfectly). Point 2 is more complex and even more untested. Again through parsimony, Point 1 is more logical to hold as a belief. Both have unknowable areas, it's just that we pick the simpler theory always because it's better science in general, at least to the depths that our meager human intellects can handle. This type of thinking is called alternative, where we reduce all arguments from opponents into possibilities and individually disprove each one. I've found this method to be successful against your garden-variety atheist, and it's been used to great efficacy against the more "prophetic" ones. (Hitchens, Dawkins, etc - the "celebrity" atheists)