[sparklite2]

Second, when faced with choosing between just one Unseen Mind or an infinite number of unseen universes, remember Ockham’s razor.

---

I believe in using the Razor, and that why I think this nonsense belongs in the religion forum.

[cuban leaf]

He spelled Occam wrong. :)

I spelled add hock wrong once. Whoops. I did it again. :D

[cuban leaf]

...belongs in the religion forum.

---

I think that is the author’s point. :)

[central_va]

All living cells that we know of on this planet are “DNA software”-driven biological machines, comprised of hundreds of thousands of protein robots, coded for by the DNA.11

Even using the most optimistic extreme upper limits for the probabilities of blind and mindless nature coding the digital information for thousands of functional proteins necessary for an operating cell, including the required molecular machines, those probabilities are so infinitesimally small that if Eugene Koonin thought we needed an infinite number of universes to explain the origin of RNA translation, that is nothing compared to getting an entire cell up and running. So what possible explanations do we have?

---

If you can't understand the simple logic of the above then you are an idiot.

[Heartlander]

The multiverse does belong in the religion forum...

Welcome to Free Republic! Conservatives for God, Family, Country! Est. 1996

[D Rider]

The problem with the multiverse is that you must believe in infinity. Of which there is no evidence at either the macro or micro level. Put the universe in perspective. For one thing is it absurdly small in comparison to the random chance of even an average protein from happening, even if you assume starting with universe full of amino acids. Second, all life is information based. The information requires context and an intellegent transmitter. Third, if the plasma model of the universe is correct, (believed by about a third of all physicist, including many of those at Los Alamos,) The universe can be best described as an electronic simulation inside a larger reality.

But please feel free to go with the multiverse if that is all you can grasp. Infinity and beyond.

[Boogieman]

What is nonsense about it?