The Multi-verse Theory was (I suspect) intended to do away with the theory of Intelligent Design. But instead, it actually reinforces it. Let’s take a look at that.
Current
theory in cosmology includes the idea that the observed physical universe began
in a sort of explosion of space-time, and will eventually end (kazillions of
years from now) with an expansion that tears it apart, atom from atom, and even
quark from quark.
The current theory
also includes the idea that the universe has randomly determined parameters (27
of them at least) which, by coincidence, make it suitable for the generation
and support of life, civilization and technology on our planet (and perhaps on
others). Change these parameters, and
the entire universe changes. One of
these parameters is so precise that changing it by even an unimaginably small
amount, would cause the universe to either vaporize or become a fireball, or
otherwise become entirely unsuitable for life.
The problem
with that idea is that it makes our universe so unlikely that it is
unreasonable to attribute its structure to chance alone. Intelligent Design seems to be the only reasonable
way to explain it.
But
wait. The material paradigm rejects the
notion of Intelligent Design, and therefore, something must be done to explain how
the universe’s properties could have come about by chance alone.
The materialists
offer the idea that there are so many universes, perhaps infinities of them,
that no matter how small is the chance that ours could arise randomly,
nevertheless, the vast number of chances makes it certain that it would. The multi-verse is proposed to be where “bubble”
universes exist. Ours is supposed to be
one of those bubble universes, with each bubble being random.
Think of how
tiny is the chance that 100 coin flips could, by chance alone, all land as
heads. Then, consider that if you flip a
set of 100 coins repeatedly for billions of years, that the likelihood increases. Eventually, they will indeed, all land as
heads.
Likewise, if
you have infinities of universes, that is to say, a multi-verse, one of those “bubble”
universes within it, must eventually, by chance alone be like ours. This is the argument that the materialists
make, and if it went only that far, they would have made a reasonable case.
But wait. If our one universe became structured by
chance alone, then what explains the structure of the multi-verse? How did it come into being? Were its properties determined at
random? If so, then is the multi-verse part
of an even larger assortment of more multi-verses? And if so, then how were the properties of
THAT assortment of multi-verses determined?
By chance? As you can see, there
is no end to this.
Being that
there is no physical evidence for the multi-verse, it is not really a
scientific theory, but only a proposed model, and only because our universe
SEEMS to be intelligently designed. But
the model fails to do away with Intelligent Design theory in any reasonable
way.
There are other
factors as well that discredit the idea of a multi-verse, including the
assertion by materialist physicists that, “Anything that can happen, must
happen, and must happen an infinite number of times.”
Materialist
physics also asserts that there can be no free will, which of course renders
futile all human activity, including materialist physics.
In the end,
we can neither prove nor disprove Multiverse Theory nor Intelligent Design Theory. We are left with deciding which theory is the
most reasonable, and which is the most useful in ordering our personal lives.
Choose.
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