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To: KLP who wrote (419073)3/30/2011 6:56:29 AM
From: Brumar893 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793754
 
It's amazing this is explicitly given as an argument - talk about your philosophical predispositions:

One, explained Linde, is that the multiverse solves the problem of why the laws of physics in our universe seem to be fine-tuned to allow for life. “If you change the mass of the proton, the charge on the electron,” or any of an array of other constants, “we’d all be dead,” he argued.

Why is this so, Linde asked—“did someone create this special universe for us?”

Steering clear of the straightforward answer many religious believers would give, “yes,” Linde argued that the multiverse explains the problem without resorting to the supernatural.

Course the best argument is it makes for lots of interesting sci-fi plot development.
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