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God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos
God and the Multiverse Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos Author:Victor J. Stenger Cosmologists have reasons to believe that the vast universe in which we live is just one of an endless number of other universes within a multiverse -- a mind-boggling array that may extend indefinitely in space and endlessly in both the past and the future. In this absorbing book, Victor Stenger reviews the key developments in the history of sc... more »ience that led to the current consensus view of astrophysicists, taking pains to explain essential concepts and discoveries in accessible terminology. The author shows that science's emerging understanding of the multiverse -- consisting of at least 100 billion galaxies -- is fully explicable in naturalistic terms with no need for supernatural forces to explain its origin or ongoing existence.
How can conceptions of God, traditional or otherwise, be squared with this new worldview? The author takes a skeptical approach to religion, suggesting that long-held beliefs will need to undergo major revision and may face eventual extinction. « less