RE: I will prove to you that God exists
April 9, 2025 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2025 at 8:42 am by Alan V.)
(April 9, 2025 at 6:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If the any of the multiverse theories are correct, I don’t see how this helps the fine tuning argument for deliberate creation. Couldn’t a Creator who had the goal of intelligent life in mind have done it with just one universe? It seems akin to building an infinite number of cars to make sure one of them will work.
Boru
Drew looks askance at multiverse cosmology because he thinks it is an overly-complicated way for naturalists to avoid confronting what look like unaccounted-for biofriendly properties in the only universe we know about. Stephen Hawking acknowledged the problem, and maintained that such biofriendly properties needed their own explanation, though he attempted to do that through his quantum cosmology.
Both divine creation and anthropic multiverse cosmology share the idea that the laws of physics transcend the natural world. Hawking thought they evolved within the first split second of the big bang. What was important to him was not the time which had elapsed but the range of temperatures traversed. He pointed to such things as the electroweak force breaking into electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force, as well as the Higgs field coming into play to cause that transition only at a certain reduced temperature, as examples of what he envisioned. This is similar to other grand unified theories, but it incorporated elements of holographic cosmology as well, in which one natural constant influences another through quantum entanglement. It's the hypothesis he was working on when he died in 2018.
At least that is the sense I made of it. A lot no doubt depended on the math.