Cosmological Fine Tuning

[Pete]

I'd like to mention that when I started this thread I merely asked

What do you good folks think about the multiverse theory and cosmological fine tuning?

When I wrote that it was with the expectation that folks would respond to that question and not come back with assumptions about me or my intentions why I posted it. Some folks here took it upon themselves to go with some assumptions they made about and what I think about that theory. I assume that since they know I'm a Christian that I must think that cosmolological fine-tunning is some sort of proof of the Christian/Jewish/Islamic God. I never thought that and I don't think I'd ever take a scientific theory to mean that. I'm merely asking folks not to assume that I think something and then chide me on that assumption. Okay?

I've had some time to read some of the book Cosmick Jackpot, by Paul Davies (the same Davies who refers to himself as an astrobiologist) the same Davies whose paper I quoted. That paper is

Multiverse cosmological models, by Paul Davies, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 19, 727 (2004).

The URL to the paper is http://cosmos.asu.edu/publications/paper...s%2083.pdf

Regarding testability, Davies writes

..., it does not rule out the possibility that it may be tested indirectly. Almost all scientists and philosophers accept the general principle that the prediction of unobservable enties is an acceptable scientific hypothesis if those entities stem from a theory that has other tetable consequences.

Consider the muli-world hypothesis of quantum mechanics. I, myself, can't see how one would test that theory, yet. The original relative state formulation is due to Hugh Everett in 1957.

Best wishes

Pete