Physics is pointing to God. Actually, it is like a neon Vegas billboard which says “pull off the highway and come here.”

Some people don’t want to believe in God. It has nothing to do with the evidence but, instead, the condition of their own hearts.

Multiple universes? If it gets us out of the God-problem, sure…let’s go with that.

Susskind does not support ID. His new book is entitled “The Cosmic Landscape : String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design”.

He is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford. If he supported ID, you can bet the DI would be trumpeting it from the rooftops.

And he is right.

In the 19th-20th centuries, otherwise rational men begain to substitute fantasy for real data (best illustrated by my favorite Fr. Coyne’s amazing quote: “two hydrogen atoms meet in the early universe…. And so they wander through the universe until they finally do combine….and so on, until we have…eventually…the human brain.” http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi.....blet-01063

From Amanda Gefter’s interview with Leonard Susskind, the following are poster examples of “wishful thinking”, “magical thinking”, “insanity”:
(Notice how “supposition” just sort of becomes “fact”.)

“The bottom line is that we no longer have any good reason to believe that our tiny patch of universe is representative of the whole thing.”
Theory becomes fact that is then woven into new theory that becomes fact.

“At first, string theorists thought there were about a million solutions. …I used to go around asking my mathematician friends: are you sure it’s only a million?”
He really wants there to be infinite solutions because then accidental life is probable. (Tacit admission that life as we know it ISN’T accidental in the the only universe we know.)

“Why should we presume that all life is like us – carbon-based, needs water, and so forth?”
Because this is all the data we actually have.

“If life could exist without galaxies, the argument that the cosmological constant seems improbably fine-tuned for life would lose all of its force.”
The burning wish: that the universe ISN’T fine tuned for life.