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		0xdeadbeefbabe on Jan 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019) > Happily there are no academic theories on this matter Why happily? Evolution seems like a good academic theory. Is Pascal's wager academic enough? What about Occam's razor?

nineplay on Jan 12, 2024 [–]

To clarify, there are no academic theories about where the Creator came from. Academic research on the matter would have to pre-suppose the existences of a Creator, and so far as I know there is no research group willing to take that as given.

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