Mad Science of the Multiverse
Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" - Samuel Johnson
“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Jean Cocteau
THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE IN A NUTSHELL
The"anthropic principle" is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument - which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.
It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end?
Update
It seems like a lot of other gnostic bloggers have been announcing that they intend to take a break from blogging lately, so I guess that’s the hip thing to do.
SO: I would announce that intend to take a break…
Anguish & Anxiety
..or conflict and agression. Man, I sure had a week for it. A trip inside the self-reflecting sphere - rubbernecking at blog kerfluffles, pitching my 2 cents even where it was probably about as welcome as a stinkbomb at a…
The Incredibly Strange Story of Intelligent Design
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #97, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of alternative human origins theories and their links to Gnostic mythology!
