Discover Magazine has an interesting article up discussing a perennial favorite: the fine-tuning of the universe for life. I got a bit nervous when I saw the title:
That makes it sound like scientists devised the multiverse idea strictly as a desperation move to counter all that annoying God-talk. In reality physicists have been seriously discussing the idea of a multiverse for decades, and quite a lot of work in physics is pointing in that direction. The multiverse does seem to follow naturally both from recent work in string theory as well as the inflationary Big Bang theory. This is a considerable improvement over the nothing at all on which the God hypothesis rests.
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