damian1727, I just discovered that I committed a monstrous goof in my statement responding to your statement about fine-tuning of the Universe. By saying "high" when I meant to say "low", I said precisely the opposite of what I intended to say: a horrific example of careless forgetting to proof to assure that I was saying what I meant to say. Sorry, people. I meant to say that I agree with you that the probability of the Universe's coming into existence fine-tuned for human life to occur was highly IMprobable.

As for the term "multiverse", I want no part of it. I know of no evidence for there being more than the one Universe that we know, the "branes" of string theory notwithstanding.

jseats, I agree wholeheartedly with your rejection of the concept of multiverses. I see no useful purpose in speculating about the existence of universes other than the one we know unless there is a possibility of our being able to test for their existence. On the other hand, I do feel that it is important to distinguish the universe and the observable universe because they are drastically different, and it is often important to know which one is being referred to.