Scientism’s latest great escape

Note: There’s a humorous follow-up on the multiverse theory here.)

Michael E. writes:

Here is an interesting article in Discover magazine. It was referenced in a column by Dinesh D’Souza. It seems that scientists, in order to avoid acknowledging the possibility of the existence of God, for which there is some empirical evidence, have developed a theory of multiple, infinite universes for which there is no, and likely will be no, empirical data:

Science’s Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory

Our universe is perfectly tailored for life. That may be the work of God or the result of our universe being one of many.

LA replies:

Why don’t they just bite the bullet and say the universe is suspended on the back of a tortoise, or that the universe is being dreamed by a housewife in Secaucus? That’s no less an obvious evasion of the problem of existence than their multiverse is.

And these are the people who dismiss God because to believe in God is to resort to infinite regress. “If God created the universe,” they argue, “what created God”? My one paragraph answer to them is here.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 28, 2008 01:07 PM | Send