Return of the God Hypothesis: Breakthroughs in Physics, Cosmology, and Biology Seeking Evidence for the Existence of God

by Stephen C. Meyer

Indeed, to explain the fine tuning of both the initial conditions and the laws and constants of physics, the combination of inflationary cosmology and string theory needs to affirm numerous purely hypothetical entities, abstract postulates, and unobservable processes. In particular for an inflationary string landscape model to explain both types of fine tuning, it must make the following postulations: An inflaton field exists. The decay of inflaton fields will produce new bubble universes with different initial conditions. The process of inflation will continue eternally into the future. An infinite number of bubble universes exists (or will eventually exist). Unimaginably small vibrating strings of energy exist. Six or seven extra hidden spatial dimensions exist. The vibrating strings of energy within string vacua create the physical phenomena we observe. Lines of flux around the compactifications of space exist, making them quasi-stable with a positive cosmological constant. Supersymmetry applies to fundamental strings, so that both gravitons and gravitinos exist and their different vibrational modes correspond to all forms of radiation, matter, and the fundamental forces of physics.