Cosmology: multiverse craziness (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 11:06 (2438 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Science should be based on evidence. String theory and multiverse proposals have no evidence at all. Shouldn't they be abandoned?

https://evolutionnews.org/2017/08/the-multiverse-is-sciences-assisted-suicide/

QUOTE: "The multiverse has only ever existed, so far as we know, in the mind of man. Its most promising research programs, string theory and early rapid cosmic inflation theory, have bounced along on enthusiasm alone, prompting ever more arcane speculations for which there may never be any possibility of evidence.
"But like so many other empty ideas, the multiverse has consequences. If we accept it, we abandon the view that science deals with the observed facts of nature. We adopt the view that it tells us what we want to believe about ourselves. In other words, the multiverse is science’s assisted suicide."

Thank you for this superb article! We have frequently pointed out the absurdity of unproven and unprovable theories masquerading as science, while at the same time certain scientists sneer at theism because it is an unproven and unprovable theory "prompting ever more arcane speculations" etc. Three cheers for the much maligned agnostic, who can recognize Tweedledum and Tweedledee when he sees them.