How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem of evil (2017)

Re:How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem ... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:30AM (#17550360)

To be science, a theory needs testable hypotheses and falsifiability. Per my understanding, the multiverse theories have neither. Just because scientists speculate about something, doesn’t make it science, just as a lot of Isaac Newton’s speculations were not science.

In the Middle Ages, learned people used to debate how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Now they debate multiverses. Neither are really science.

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Re:How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem ... by xamuel on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @11:34AM (#17550402)

Quite right.

Incidentally, you might be interested in a recent paper of mine arguing that one extremely specific type of 'multiverse' (an extremely specific type of our living in a simulation run in a higher universe) is falsifiable. It's a super short paper using a deus-ex-machina you would never guess: soft errors! :) https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf

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Re:How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem ... by brookhaven_dude on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:16PM (#17550755)

And yet someone like Newton did speculate on those matters. Just because something is not science does not mean it does not warrant our attention. Or is not fun to contemplate.

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Re:How scientific cosmology puts a new twist on the problem ... by yedawg on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:03PM (#17550634)

if "angels" are subatomic particles then... lmao

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