The issue of chance... (My own introduction) (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, May 13, 2011, 01:49 (4741 days ago) @ David Turell

Studying the advancing cosmology and particle physics of the 20th Century, convinced me, a la' Paul Davies (I've followed his metamorphosis for years), that something was afoot behind the Big Bang. I don't believe string theory and multiverses are reasonable, more like mental masturbation as Smolin and Woit have described in their recent books. And I find John Leslie's conclusion that 'either there are multiverses and/or God' (rough quote) most convincing, since I don't buy multiverses, unproveable and anti-Occam, despite Andrei Linde and others.-Paul Davies asks the darndest questions. He wants to know where the laws of the universe come from! He thinks scientists have too much faith in what they expect from their studies and their results. At the same time he rejects any supernatural source. He feels that the laws of the universe have a source that must be explained from within the universe, not multiverses.-http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/opinion/24davies.html?pagewanted=1