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\section{Disclaimer}  The paper below started as a mathematical attempt to understand some things, but, in the end, the mathematical part turned out to be rather small, containing only a few simple properties about set cardinalities and probabilities. I think that the non-mathematical ideas are fairly obvious consequences of the mathematical ones, so probably many people have already thought about them. I tried searching about it and the closest thing that I found is the idea that the order of the Universe implies or suggests that there is a God. The fine-tuning of the Universe is also close\footnote{\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe]}. However, I think that what I'm presenting in this paper is different from what I have read about both of these. I have found quotes from various people that seem to hint at the idea below, but I did not find anyone that tried to actually develop it.  Since it started as a mathematical paper it may use \ghilimele{we} instead of \ghilimele{I} more often than it should, but you should consider it an invitation to work together in discovering some ideas. And if some of those ideas are wrong or unclear\footnote{given my lack of experience with philosophy this is more probable than I would like}, I welcome counterarguments and feedback\footnote{Authorea allows everyone to comment on the document. I may switch to a different commenting system if it turns out that something better is needed.}.  \section{Introduction}  This is an attempt to reason about why our world is the way it is and what we can reasonably believe about it.  Many people believe that the world is designed and created and that it's unreasonable to believe that any world can exist without being created, and I agree with them. However, these beliefs are not shared by everyone, so it's worth thinking about what this means. If the world is created, then it's likely to be the way it is because its Creator\footnote{Not everybody that believes that the world is created thinks that God created it. Still, I hope that they would agree that naming the creator of this world as \ghilimele{the Creator} is reasonable.} wanted it to have certain properties. In order to understand why our world works the way it does, one would need to understand the intent of its Creator. While that is interesting in itself, I will not try to pursue it here. 

[TODO: Make sure I'm using quotes correctly and consistently.]  [TODO: Fix spaces between math mode and punctuation.]  [TODO: Fix the usage of I and we.] we - I explained it.]  [TODO: Use can't, won't, isn't and can not, will not, is not consistently.]  [TODO: Think a bit more about the fact that even statistically we can't model more than $0$].  [TODO: How can we observe the universe without having uniforme laws?]  [TODO: define "mathematical prediction" or something like that and use it here, since I have two meanings of prediction - I think this is done/not needed, I added a footnote in the only place where I use the normal meaning of prediction. I have to check. Maybe I should be more explicit about this.]  [TODO: Put an e-mail address in the footnote in the introduction.]  [TODO:  Things to check at the end: my macro is used for \ghilimele{quotes}.]