Saturday, March 19, 2011  Middlebrow Atheism. Part 3  Continuing
my series on naive atheism:  Video Item 06: The Wmap satellite
data is consistent with inflation. Inflation implies an infinite
number of pocket universes are created in an eternal process. If
lots of universes are created each with different "constant"
values, one of them is bound to have the right values for life.
The collisions of other “bubble” universes with our own universe
might show up on Wmap data making it a testable theory.
Alternatively the constants (like “alpha”) could vary randomly
across a large universe and eventually hit the required fine
tuning values.  My Comment: The idea here is that the universe
(or multiverse) is far larger in space and/or time than the
observed universe; in fact so large that the universe will have
available to it enough trials to make inevitable the appearance
of the right fine tuning values in at least one sub-universe.
The essential feature of this argument is that the fine tuning
values are the resul