Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

Victor J. Stenger

Guth has a large following. One fan is the University of Hawaii’s Victor J. Stenger. If the multiverse is right, he argues, the response to fine tuning as something that points to a supernatural creator is a “no brainer.” God’s existence is off the table. “A multi-universe scenario is not ruled out since no known principle requires that only one universe exist,” he says.

[It] can be argued that a multiverse composed of many universes with different laws and physical properties is more consistent with Occam's razor than a single universe. We would need to hypothesize a new principle to rule out all but a single universe. If multiple universes exist, then we are simply in that particular universe which necessarily contained all the logically consistent possibilities that had the properties needed to produce us.

Stenger wields a big club: Occam’s Razor. We mentioned it earlier when we mentioned William of Ockham.