Stephen Meyer Visits the Multiverse of Madness

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future out of the vault, radio host Michael Medved sits down with bestselling science author Stephen Meyer to discuss the Marvel movie Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Medved isn’t wild about the film, but he uses it as a springboard to dive into what he calls “the madness of the multiverse”—namely, the proposals in physics and cosmology for the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. Meyer explains some of the early motivations among twentieth-century physicists and cosmologists for proposing such an exotic theory. Then he turns to what he says is the main driver for interest in the multiverse in our day—a desire to explain away something that is deeply puzzling on the grounds of atheism: that the laws and constants of physics and chemistry are exquisitely fine tuned for life. Source

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Hello I'm Tom Gilson. Today on I.D. The future, we have another great conversation
0:18.1	between Stephen C Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture
0:24.2	and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Michael Medved
0:27.7	hosting him on the Michael Medved show.
0:30.4	Much appreciation to them for the opportunity to rebroadcast it.
0:35.0	Medved opened the show with some very brief comments on events that were current in the news the week they recorded it.
0:42.0	We're going to pick it up right after that as he
0:44.1	introduces the day's strange topic, strange in quotation marks.
0:48.4	Meanwhile, something else that we need to figure out is the madness of the multiverse.
0:57.8	The number one movie in the country has been Dr Strange and the madness of the multiverse.
1:05.2	This reflects an interest in a phenomenon that serious scientists and philosophers and others
1:10.8	have been speculating about for years and years. And somebody who's
1:15.4	written about this and written about it very persuasively and
1:19.3	insightfully with all kinds of implications to that writing.
1:24.0	What does the multiverse mean?
1:26.4	How is it possible to have a different universe
1:29.1	than the one that we inhabit?
1:31.9	Not just a different planet, not just a different galaxy, but a different
1:37.6	entire universe.
1:40.2	How can there be more than one?
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