Why think that my existence is very likely if there’s a God? Simple: God would create all possible people. It’s good to create a person and give them a good life. There’s nothing stopping God from creating any person, so he’d make them all. God would make anything that’s worth making, and every person is worth making, so God would make every person.
It seems like the world we inhabit argues against this. I’d expect there to be a lot more people (who are on-average happier) if a pro-natalist benevolent-and-aware-of-humans God existed.
You could argue that God did create the pro-natalist utopia, then the slightly-less pro-natalist utopia, and so-on down to our weirdly-empty and unhappy world, but then your anthropic argument breaks down (if you randomly select a human, ~0% of them are not in the pro-natalist utopia(s)).
If theism is true then all possible people exist but they’re not all here. SIA gives you a reason to think many exist but says nothing about where they’d be. Theism predicts a vast multiverse.
It seems like the world we inhabit argues against this. I’d expect there to be a lot more people (who are on-average happier) if a pro-natalist benevolent-and-aware-of-humans God existed.
You could argue that God did create the pro-natalist utopia, then the slightly-less pro-natalist utopia, and so-on down to our weirdly-empty and unhappy world, but then your anthropic argument breaks down (if you randomly select a human, ~0% of them are not in the pro-natalist utopia(s)).
If theism is true then all possible people exist but they’re not all here. SIA gives you a reason to think many exist but says nothing about where they’d be. Theism predicts a vast multiverse.