[snarks_when_bored]

Well, fso301, perhaps the writer(s) of those passages had something specific in mind (and perhaps not), but, whatever it was, it clearly has nothing to do with inflationary cosmology and multiple universes. In my view, anyway.

[fso301]

As I said, I don't know one way or the other. The bible is most definitely not a science book. My point was that a person could believe in scripture and have no conflict with this topic.

[Blind Eye Jones]

I think that if there was conclusive evidence for parallel universes or bubble universes or universes within black holes we'd still be saying, "well, what if..." In other words, it doesn't matter what is discovered or not discovered there will be room for more speculation. Even if we have the theory that explains everything it wouldn't stop people from speculating that everything is not explained... we would have to know the whole universe to feel certain.

And there is probably a reason why speculation draws us on so that we notice that we speculate about the fact that we speculate at all, which I'm speculating has to do with the fact that we are a speculating species... Ugh! Good Night, it late!