An argument against multiverse theory

[M Winther]

I'm going to argue that physicists have discovered such baffling
orderliness in nature that the idea of a supernatural intelligence
forces itself upon them. It is for this reason that the multiverse model
was invented. It is a defence against God. My argument is aesthetic and
philosophical, rather than resolutely physical.

The multiverse theories were invented to get rid of God. Physicists have
unveiled such remarkable and finely tuned order in the universe that
they can no longer speak of a universe lacking intelligence. It is so
extremely clever in its design that if you change a parameter just
slightly, the whole thing won't work. Sublime orderliness and life
couldn't emerge.

By example, if we strike a glass window with a hammer, it will
disintegrate into irregular pieces. This is what scientists earlier
expected at all levels of nature. But this is not what they see. After
the "hammer stroke" at the beginning of time, the glass pieces have been
falling down, and we can now observe that they are not irregular but
have ideal shapes. Figuratively speaking, we see perfect circles,
triangles, stars, etc.

Such things just don't happen. Imagine if you crashed a window and it
disintegrated into perfect shapes. Nobody would argue that it is a
chance event. Even the most stern atheist would realize that an
intelligent agent is behind it. Maybe a clever illusionist.

So this is the conundrum that physicists and cosmologists are up
against. They are, against expectation, producing proof of a higher
intelligence in cosmos.

Multiverse theory seems like a perfectly desperate attempt to make God
stay dead. Central to my argument is that the model can't be right
because it disagrees with the "personality of nature". Nature isn't
wasteful. It always chooses the low-cost alternative in terms of energy.
Mother Nature wouldn't continually create a multitude of new universes,
of which the majority are crap. Elsewhere in nature, we see no such
examples. Indeed, Max Tegmark ("Universe or Multiverse?", Carr (ed.),
2007) grants that the principal arguments against multiverse theories
are that they are "wasteful and that they are weird". However, he
doesn't seem to think so, himself.

Still, it is a hugely vulgar and gross idea--a stupid, ugly and wasteful
solution. Mother Nature isn't like that. She is ingenious and beautiful,
and wouldn't resort to such primitive solutions. It's not in keeping
with her personality. It's like if a tree would spawn billions of seeds
with completely arbitrary genetic code, hoping that some seed has a good
enough genome to take root. A tree is more clever than that.
Mathematical physicists testify to the beauty and economy of the laws of
nature. Multiverse theory has nothing in common with any law of nature
hitherto discovered.

My point is that everything we see around us has character and
personality. Every animal has personality and every tree has character.
Every moon and planet in our solar system is unlike all the others.
Astronomers are fascinated with the variegation among the moons.

Nowhere do we see completely useless crap. On the contrary, everything
in nature has its own special characteristics and is therefore quite
interesting. And everything stands in some connection to everything
else. But multiverse theory implies the creation of a lot of useless
garbage, wholly lacking in character--completely meaningless, inert, and
inanimate junk that stands in no connection to the rest of creation.

Such a model is completely at odds with the character of creation.
Differently expressed, it does not agree with the personality of the
Creator.

Also, cosmologists say that, in the beginning, there were absolutely
perfect order--minimum entropy. Following the laws of thermodynamics,
this orderliness is now being depleted in cosmos as a whole. What was
this Perfect Order at the beginning of time? It sounds to me almost like
a theological definition of God. It gives physicists the scare, and they
take flight into theoretical madness.

Mats Winther
http://two-paths.com