Cosmology

Yesterday, News put up a post on the mysterious origins of the moon, invoking a classic song on being caught between the Moon and New York City. (Niwrad added a post here on the multiverse that is also worth seeing. Kindly bear in mind this earlier ID Foundations post on fine tuning.) Mahuna aptly comments: “As the number of steps increases, the likelihood of a particular sequence decreases.” OK, so Earth is not merely “very improbable”. It’s very VERY very improbable. I don’t see this as a problem for Earth, which I think we can prove actually exists. I do see it causing a problem for all those “Earth 2″ exo-planets, of which we can subtract 99% (or something) based Read More ›

In a previous post of UD News, Denyse O’Leary rightly defines the multiverses as “one of the many products of methodological naturalism”. Here I want only to focus a bit why this product is quite inconsistent and even worsens the case of atheist cosmology. The multiverse (alias short form for “multi-universes”) supposition (mainly arising from odd interpretations related to mathematical solutions of equations of “strings theories” in modern physics) is that there is a large number of universes beyond ours, each with its own laws, parameters and physical constants. About this number there is no agreement (ranging from 10^500 to 10^10^10,000,000 and beyond), and just this speaks volumes on the reliability of the idea. Anyway let’s call “N” this number. Read More ›