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Is our observable universe one of many? The "Multiverse" is a term for a proposed group of universes — perhaps many, perhaps an infinite number — of which our universe is only one. | Is our observable universe one of many? The "Multiverse" is a term for a proposed group of universes — perhaps many, perhaps an infinite number — of which our universe is only one. | ||
We have no answer without going outside the Universe, but the mere ''possibility'' of the Multiverse is of interest to people who do not believe in a Creator, because it gives an answer to the "Fine Tuning Problem"<ref>See at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe Wikipedia]</ref> i.e. that the Universe appears to be fine-tuned for life, as if God had made it for life, including humans. To the theist who says something like "the Universe is perfectly '''made''' for us: it must have had God to '''make''' it" the atheist can reply "that's only ''our'' universe!" | We have no answer without going outside the Universe, but the mere ''possibility'' of the Multiverse is of interest to people who do not believe in a Creator, because it gives an answer to the "Fine Tuning Problem"<ref>See the Fine Tuning concept at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe Wikipedia]</ref> i.e. that the Universe appears to be fine-tuned for life, as if God had made it for life, including humans. To the theist who says something like "the Universe is perfectly '''made''' for us: it must have had God to '''make''' it" the atheist can reply "that's only ''our'' universe!" | ||
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Is our observable universe one of many? The "Multiverse" is a term for a proposed group of universes — perhaps many, perhaps an infinite number — of which our universe is only one.
We have no answer without going outside the Universe, but the mere possibility of the Multiverse is of interest to people who do not believe in a Creator, because it gives an answer to the "Fine Tuning Problem"[1] i.e. that the Universe appears to be fine-tuned for life, as if God had made it for life, including humans. To the theist who says something like "the Universe is perfectly made for us: it must have had God to make it" the atheist can reply "that's only our universe!"
