[Under the many worlds hypothesis]
>...every femtosecond, an unimaginably large quantity of
>universes is coming into being, said quantity increasing exponentially with
>each passing femtosecond.
>
>This lets theoreticians avoid, e.g., the quantum measurement problem, and
>some other aspects of quantum weirdness.
>
>Of course, it does pay a rather enormous price for this. Most physicists
>find this to be truly egregious, a simple theory with an extraordinarily
>bloated ontology (talk about needlessly multiplying hypothetical entities!),
>but it's one way to avoid design, in theory at least.
It seems reasonable to claim that design is outside the scope of science.
But that's not equivalent to claiming that nature is not designed, since
that is a negative conclusion about design. If positive conclusions must
be disallowed, so must negative conclusions. Design should be treated as
an undecidable issue by honest scientists, IMO.
Bill Hamilton
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