Can the remarkable fine tuning of the universe be scientifically explained by the concept of a “multiverse,” worlds upon unperceived worlds with an endless variety of conditions that leaves our world as simply “the right one” for life to exist? Not according to Cambridge physicist John Polkinghorne. In one lecture, he wryly quipped about the exacting standards of the world, “There is no free lunch. Somebody had to pay, and only God has the resources to put in what was needed to get what we’ve got.” In his book, One World (pp. 79-80), he writes: “Let us recognize these speculations for what they are. They are not physics, but, in the strictest sense, metaphysics. There is no purely scientific reason to believe in an ensemble of universes…A possible explanation of equal intellectual respectability—and to my mind, greater elegance—would be that this one world is the way it is because it is the creation of the will of a Creator who purposes that it should be so.”
Today’s Reading: Jeremiah 49-52; Lamentations 1 Memorize: Romans 3:22-23