Figure 30: Super-turtle! To avoid an infinite regress (the bottomless tower of turtles in Figure 29), one might consider a levitating super-turtle, which is self-explaining and self-supporting. Theologians call this “a necessary being,” and some have tried to prove that such a being exists. Some scientists have argued for the necessary existence of a unique super-unified theory. Many People Think the Universe Absurd The root of the turtle trouble can be traced to the orthodox nature of reasoned argument. The entire scientific enterprise is predicated on the assumption that there are reasons
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