Liar out of the gate.
NO ONE who is a SERIOUS science fiction reader calls it “sci-fi.” That is considered an insult to the genre.
IOW: Cool story, bro.
Second, when faced with choosing between just one Unseen Mind or an infinite number of unseen universes, remember Ockham’s razor.
The author is exactly right. The theory of the multiverse was SPECIFICALLY created because science cannot not explain how a life sustaining universe can happen by mere chance. They MUST postulate that out of an infinite number of universes randomly occurring that ONE will be like ours. This way they don’t have to deal with REAL science and look toward a creator.
“for many people the distinction between doing science, and creative storytelling, has become blurred.”
Unfortunately true.
“Fantastically improbable events would be commonplace in a multiverse containing a near-infinite number of possibilities.”
Actually, they would still be just as improbable and just as rare, but with infinite iterations, you can at least argue they would inevitably exist.
Okay, we’ve got a universe here (one verse) and a multiverse (more than one verse), so what’s a verse?