>>23806104>God as a system external to reality—it introduces far too many contradictionsWhen it comes to factoring in God, it also depends on how one defines God, however, that's a completely different can of philosophical worms lol. Related, but you're right: it isn't what we're actually focused on now; God is just one potential stipulation.
>so as to not turn this into a theological discussion, how do you justify the latter?To be fair, I don't believe that nothing can actually interfere with something, let alone interfere enough to change the entire laws of physics of something, however, nothing could be changing everything that follows the big bang constantly; accounting for the potential of quantum foam time or retrocausality, we could just technically be inert matter hallucinating coherence and consciousness. I can't quite justify it, however, I won't discount either, until definitively proven right or wrong.
