Tag Archives: Multiverse

“If You Don’t Want God, You’d Better Have a Multiverse”

Late in 2008 Discover Magazine published an article that contains one of the clearest reasons any scientist has ever stated for favoring multiverse theory. I believe my blog entry on it is worth re-posting (with some edits/updates). Follow it to the end for the key statement, and then ask yourself: is he reasoning from science …

February 22, 2011 – 9:30 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (47)

“Cosmologists Aim To Observe First Moments Of Universe”

This is going to be interesting to watch: During the next decade, a delicate measurement of primordial light could reveal convincing evidence for the popular cosmic inflation theory, which proposes that a random, microscopic density fluctuation in the fabric of space and time gave birth to the universe in a hot big bang approximately 13.7 …

February 17, 2009 – 6:37 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged | Comments (2)

A Man of Great Faith

In his critical review in The New Republic of two theistic evolutionists, anti-theistic biologist Jerry Coyne speaks about various views of our fine-tuned universe. Contrasting materialist science with theism, he writes, Also, scientists have other explanations, ones based on reason rather than on faith. Perhaps some day, when we have a “theory of everything” that …

February 1, 2009 – 2:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

“If You Don’t Want God, You’d Better Have a Multiverse”

Discover Magazine tackles the fine-tuning problem in its December 2008 issue, in an article titled “A Universe Built For Us.” It’s not available online, unfortunately, unless you’re a subscriber [update 11/10/08, courtesy of Todd: it actually is online here. You might enjoy buying a copy to discover what they’ve wrapped around this enticing introductory material: …

November 6, 2008 – 9:56 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (33)