heelers conquers the multiverse

The atheistic astronomer Fred Hoyle came up with the name Big Bang for the origin event which purportedly resulted in this universe. According to some sources, Mr Hoyle disapproved of the very notion of the event he had named, since Big Bang cosmology implied the universe had a beginning and a universe with a beginning looked to him dangerously like something out of the Book of Genesis.

Fred Hoyle is never known to have renounced his atheism although he did come up with a famous one liner debunking atheistic Darwinism, in which he suggested that life beginning spontaneously by chance was about as probable as a tornado assembling a 747 Jumbo Jet from refuse in a junk yard.

The 747 remark touches most nearly upon my heart.

You see, I tried to build a 747 Jumbo Jet once, when I was five years old, in a sand pit at the rear of our house on Main Street Tallaght,

I remember the event clearly. It is seared into my consciousness because a week later when I was trying to put up a tent in my friend Darragh Murphy's garden, Darragh's father joined us and proceeded to unbraid me for about an hour in high good humour and a most sonorous Cork accent: "Jamie Healy! Jamie Healy! He's building 747's and helicopers and rocket ships and he can't even put up a tent."

That rocket ship was meant to be a secret.

Atheistic science has run into some sticky issues in recent years, much stickier than Fred Hoyle's 747 analogy, most notably the lack of sufficient time in our universe in which Darwinian evolution could take place.

Since science now dates the universe as not being limitlessly old but as being somewhere between eight and twenty four billion years old, all the old bog standard Darwinian mathematical models for evolution fail.

Some scientists have proposed the idea of a multiverse as a solution to this problem. The multiverse proponents claim there are a limitless number of alternative universes in which anything that can happen does happen eventually in one or other of them. Mathematical models of predictability are rendered irrelevant by an infinite number of alternative realities.

Hilarious no.

Go to chuch ye eejits. You're starting to embarrass yourselves.

How do you spell embarrass?

The multiverse in contemporary theories is known as the Landscape.

The mathematician David Berlinski writes scathingly of it in his book The Devil's Delusion: "The Landscape is a new idea in physical thought but it is not a new idea. Philosophers have long found the restriction of their thoughts to just one universe burdensome. In the late 1960s, David Lewis assigned possible worlds ontological benefits previously reserved to worlds that are real. In some possible world, Lewis argued, Julius Caesar is very much alive. He is endeavouring to cross the Hudson instead of the Rubicon, and fuming, no doubt, at the delays before the toll booth on the George Washington Bridge. It is just as parochial to reject this world as unreal, Lewis argued, as it would be to reject Chicago because it cannot be seen from New York. Lewis argued brilliantly for this idea, known as modal realism. The absurdity of the resulting view was not an impediment to his satisfaction. Or to mine, needless to say."

A limitless number of alternative universes eh!

That's the best atheists can do to shore up the skirts of dying Darwinism.

But maybe Berlinski's scathingness is over scathed.

Imagine.

Everything that can happen does happen in some universe or other.

So.

In one such alternative universe there's a five year old James Healy who actually did construct a 747 Jumbo Jet that flew in the rear garden at Number 18 Main Road, Tallaght in early 1971.

And a week later he probably put up a tent successfully in Murphy's garden a few doors up.

I'd like to meet that alternative universe James Healy.

That kid's alright.

did this really happen

The chances of atheistic Darwinism being a true explanation of the origin of life are likenable to the chances of the 1980s TV character McGyver hiding in a junkyard while being pursued by the mafia and before the mafia arrive managing to build a 747 Jumbo Jet to escape in, simply by sitting amid the junk reciting the word "abiogenesis" as an incantation until a 747 Jumbo Jet appeared spontaneously from the rubbish.

apologia pro analogies mea

The chances of Richard Dawkins being right in his atheistic explanations for the nature of existence are likenable to the chances of the Boeing Corporation descending upon a junkyard and using only the debris therein being able to construct a 747 Jumbo Jet capable of independent thought and sexual reproduction, along with a female 747 Jumbo Jet capable of independent thought and sexual reproduction and willing to mate with the first one.