Multiverse
At Evolution News: Meyer and Klavan: How the Multiverse Ruins Science…and Storytelling
David Klinghoffer writes: Stephen Meyer had a fascinating conversation with podcaster Andrew Klavan and his son Spencer Klavan. The topic: how the multiverse theory destroys not only science (as Meyer explains in Return of the God Hypothesis) but storytelling. The younger Klavan is Associate Editor at the Claremont Review of Books and an Oxford PhD in classics. Impressive guy. He wrote an essay there analyzing the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), of which “the multiverse has become the central governing concept.” Klavan nails it in his essay: “In the infinite multiverse there’s a cure for every illness. A solution to every problem,” says the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. She’s exactly right, and that’s exactly the issue: two Read More ›
At Evolution News: The Multiverse: From Epicurus to Comic Books and Beyond
At Mind Matters News: Sabine Hossenfelder asks, is the multiverse science or religion?
At Mind Matters News: Is ours one of a few working universes among countless flops?
At Big Think: Why the Multiverse is a “God-of-the-gaps” theory
At Big Think: How the Multiverse could break the scientific method
Rescuing the multiverse as a science concept… ?
Steve Meyer on why a supposed multiverse is no answer to the extreme fine-tuning of our universe
At Mind Matters News: Astrophysicists lock horns over whether multiverse must exist
Can the Higgs boson give believers their multiverse? Shot and chaser
Remember how endless cycles of universe were supposed to show that the universe has no real beginning?
Is Darwinism an “Empty Theory”?
At Evolution and News, there’s a link to a 2017 article tackling the problems of inflationary theory in the field of cosmology. What I find so interesting is the second to last paragraph in this six page article. Here’s how it reads: A common misconception is that experiments can be used to falsify a theory. In practice, a failing theory gets increasingly immunized against experiment by attempts to patch it. The theory becomes more highly tuned and arcane to fit new observations until it reaches a state where its explanatory power diminishes to the point that it is no longer pursued. The explanatory power of a theory is measured by the set of possibilities it excludes. More immunization means less Read More ›