Re: [asa] Study claims that Parallel Universes really do exist.

Robert Mann's article "Inconstant Multiverse" of 2 years ago in PSCF, at http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2005/PSCF12-05Mann.pdf , may be helpful. (He works on quantuim gravity so knows what he's talking about.) & I'll mention again the paper I gave at the ASA meeting in 1987, "Parallel Worlds, Quantum Theory, and Divine Sovereignty." It doesn't deal with recent multiverse theories, which had not yet been invented, but does treat MWI & other parallel worlds ideas scientifically & theologically. It's pre-PC so I can't email copies but will be glad to send it snailmail to anyone who asks & gives a postal address.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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  From: Michael Roberts
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  Subject: Re: [asa] Study claims that Parallel Universes really do exist.

  As I am physically and cosmologically challenged I have a very rudimentary understanding of the whole multiverse thing. I sort of understand and would only explain it in a very general way.

  However what is needed is some serious theological thinking to see how far a multiverse can be included in a theistic viewpoint. As I have long thought that we should be wary of equating the Big Bang with the initial creation and that there may be something before that, multiverses may be just that.

  I wonder what a Fr Coyne, or a Polkinghorne have to say about this.

  Though I do not like the idea of a multiverse I am reluctant to say it is unacceptable theologically. However I do not have the scientific or theological ability to make a case.

  Michael

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