HOLDING IT TOGETHER

In the past couple of years have you noticed the rise in talk about "multiverses" and "parallel universes", both in science and in pop culture?

If you are wondering where this is coming from, it is the latest attempt by secular scientists to avoid any conclusions that might point toward an all-powerful God. 

Recently, science has catalogued over a hundred laws and properties at work in our universe, interacting with each other in complex ways, and they are all "fine-tuned for life". If any one of them was even a fraction of a degree different, life would be an impossibility.

For example, "If the rate of the universe's expansion had been smaller by one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have recollapsed and could not form or sustain life." (J.P. Moreland in Scientism and Secularism, p.146)

The probability of this "fine-tuning" occurring across 100 factors by pure chance is so astonishingly small that those in the know are left scratching their heads.

Of course, Christian theology can easily account for this reality. After all, we have an all-knowing, all-powerful Creator God.

Colossians 1:15-17 describes the Son of this God in these terms:

"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."

Isn't that a curious phrase coming from Paul 2,000 years ago: "In Him all things hold together"?

But secular scientists can't go there - so some have retreated to the “many worlds hypothesis” where an infinite number of universes exist, each with a different assortment of laws. We just happen to exist in the one where they all came into perfect balance!

To be clear, there is zero evidence for such a hypothesis since a parallel universe has never been discovered, much less explored.

Still, some people find it easier to swallow a multiverse than to contemplate an omnipotent Creator.

Go figure.