Einstein's static universe was empirically inadequate: it cannot account for the redshift data gathered by Edwin Hubble and others in the 1920s. The redshift data indicates that distant stars are moving away from us, and moving faster in direct proportion to their distance. Thus, the data indicate an expanding universe, this might be termed the terrifying terra incognita argument
The theological counter argument could be termed the comforting
terra firma argument
. Even if there are 10500 universes (but not, perhaps, if there are an infinite number of them), they could have been providentially created by the almighty God with a purpose we cannot fathom.
Why not? It has even been suggested (by Paul Davies) that multiverse explanations are reminiscent of divine explanations and unintentionally reintroduce a transcendent creator
But even if the universe is temporally finite in the past, (it started with the 'big bang') it may well be spatially and materially infinite.
If space is infinite and the cosmological principle is assumed to be valid, the universe will contain an infinite number of galaxies, stars, atoms and everything else. Such actual infinities not only cause philosophical and logical problems, they may also cause problems of a theological nature.
Believers rarely reflect on the weird epistemic consequences of an actual infinity and even more rarely on the theological consequences
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