Searches for intelligent design of the Universe through the Plotinan Criterion would be futile I would think, because the creation is an indirect ‘radiation’ or product of ‘The One’. Physical cosmology in a similar conundrum would discover many paradoxical limits on researches that would parallel scriptural association instead of traces of a prime mover. The Plontinian criterion exists adequately regardless of a steady state or linear time flow from an inflaton or membrane criterion source theory.
— Gary Gibson
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