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Multiverse

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post
Date
March 5, 2014
Categorized
Multiverse

What should the ID proponent do with multiverse speculations? Embrace them.

March 5, 2014
Multiverse

Multiverse speculations routinely take a beating on Uncommon Descent for various reasons – the lack of falsifiability, the entirely speculative nature, the near complete lack of scientific evidence. All, in my view, quite good reasons to reject it all.

But I think ID proponents are missing the boat by reacting to multiverse speculations so negatively. So, I’m going to offer up several reasons why I think it’s a good idea, from an ID perspective, to accept and take part in multiverse speculations.

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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 9, 2014
Categorized
Intelligent Design, Multiverse

Multiverse advocate defends in SciAm against charges that his claims are “unscientific nonsense”

Denyse O'Leary
February 9, 2014
Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Multiverse skeptic Peter Woit fails to find Tegmark's list of his options for disagreement quite comprehensive enough and a heated exchange follows in the comments. One senses that mathematician Woit is at the disadvantage of not understanding that the multiverse is a frenzied new religious outlook. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 7, 2014
Categorized
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Multiverse

The hidden benefits of the pursuit of ET. And the hidden costs.

Denyse O'Leary
January 7, 2014
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Most of what is going wrong in cosmology and astrobiology right now is the multiple protection rackets around ideas that proponents cannot live without even IF they are false. They are too afraid of what they fear to be true. Read More ›