* I hate, hate, hate “Multi-verses”
* I did my best to confront and argue with Paul Davies when he visited pushing them.
1) Multiverses fail the basic tests for something being science
a. Can I measure it?
b. Can someone else repeat the measurement?
c. Is there a one-to-one mapping between a predictive rule, and a measurement?
The proponents of Multiverses will admit that all of these are failures. The strategy must be
to force them to define science, then use their definition to force on them and everyone else that Multiverses are NOT science.
2) Multiverses fail all tests for physical law
a. By definition, multi-verses lie outside this universe
b. If we regard the physics description of this universe as “physical law”
then mutli-verses are not, in any way, governed by physical law.
c. If “Multi-verses” are a set of things which are not physical law, and not natural, and which by definition lie outside this universe Multi-verses are “supernatural”.
A Indian man, at Paul Davies talk, came up to him and asserted that Davies was teaching Hinduism and that Hinduism had been teaching this for centuries, was Davies aware of it? Davies feigned ignorance in order to pretend he was still pushing “science”. But the Indian fellow was exactly right: Davies & co. have become apostles of Hinduism.
Multi-verse is religion. It is: not science, not physical law, outside this universe, and can never, ever be measured! As soon as you could perform a measurement on anything you might otherwise have called
a “multiverse”, you are right back in the natural universe again. Any path by which you can enter the “other” “universe”, make a measurement, and return, ports the natural-real universe to the “other” universe, and multiverse doesn’t exist again.
SO, “multiverse” can only “exist” if you don’t go there! And if you don’t go there you can never do science on it!
So the only multiverses which can ever, ever, exist are totally unscientific ones which we can never visit!
Talk about believing in pie in the sky!
Once an audience has been convinced that multi-verses are religion, then we can demonstrate that our religion is in every way scientific, whereas multi-verses are not.
1) Christianity succeeds in the basic tests for something being science
a. Can I measure it? (Jesus resurrection was physical-observable, I can pray and measure results, God says “test me in this” about tythe)
b. Can someone else repeat the measurement? (Many Bible-tests are open to anyone. Some are repeated a few times. Witnesses attest)
c. Is there a one-to-one mapping between a predictive rule, and a measurement? (Prophecy and occurrence map one to one on cities in history where the Bible predicted what would happen to them. Also, God’s predictable behaviour is committed to in multiple places. This can be measured against
history)
The proponents of Christianity will admit that all of these are successes. By reasonable definitions of science, the facts of Christianity proceed supportably via normal rules of evidence.
2) Christianity doesn’t fail all tests for physical law
a. The heavenly realm lies outside this universe, but information exchange exists between there and here.
i. This is demonstrable through checks. Did the prophecy come true? Did the prayer happen as prayed?
b. If we regard the physics description of this universe as “physical law”, we learn in credible testimony that the
heavenly realm is governed by physical laws of a kind, though different than here.
ii. This is mostly from peer reviewed journal articles (Bible). Individual testimony exists as well.
c. If Christian-supernature are a set of things which are not earthly-physical law,
but which are law attested to by many reliable witnesses, who have repeated their measurements, moved between this universe and the supernatural-universe, made predictions about this realm due to information obtained in the other realm then, the Christian supernature has scientific properties.
Caveat/exception: I do not know if any observer has made predictions and observations entirely within the supernatural realm, and repeated them, confirmed them. I would have to search the Bible for that.
So, if comparing religions, there is suggestive science for regarding Christianity as obeying rules of evidence, and therefore being at least basically or possibly credible. Multi-verses though, abandon all such rules, and because the proponents try to simultaneously assert the existence of the supernatural, but reject any claim of evidence retrieved from the supernatural realm, they seal themselves into believing only and always in a myth which they themselves could tell you that they will never, ever visit nor participate in!
We however plan to visit our other-universes and perform experiments there. So how is it that they are “scientific” and we are “religious”?
