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To: combjelly who wrote (867130)	6/22/2015 9:02:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577301

, this almost certainly isn't the only universe. ... It isn't almost certain. A person can say it's almost certain, ONLY if you rule a designing intelligence. But why should that be ruled out? gravitational anomalies, masses of galaxies moving in certain directions, that could be explained by a nearby universe that is too far for light to reach us, but their gravitational fields can. There is every reason to believe that if there are multiple universes then there is a whole bunch not just some small number. Actually, if there's a multiverse, you need an infinite number of universes. Each of which is subtly different from all the others. But why? Why would all the multiverses, if they existed, be unique? The multiverse looks exactly a hypothesis cooked up for the express purpose of explaining away scientific observations of the only universe we can perceive at all.

To: combjelly who wrote (867130)	6/22/2015 9:32:08 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1577301

It could have been worse. What Bruce is alluding to is there are several different universal constants that if they had slightly different values, life would be impossible. Now these universal constants are thought to take on their values when the universe is created. And there is no reason to suspect that the values are anything but random. This is considered by some a sign that some higher power specifically shaped our universe to support life. He must think that universal constants are like the price of gasoline, ie they can be changed at will.......the god in that case being the oil companies. We only have a few decades left as leader of the free world...