[extropy-chat] Weinberg on multiverse

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Steven Weinberg about the 'Multiverse'
in a long paper here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511037
"It must be acknowledged that there is a big di
erence in the degree of confidence we can have 
in neo-Darwinism and in the multiverse. It is
settled, as well as anything in science is ever settled, 
that the adaptations of living things on earth 
have come into being through natural selection
acting on random undirected inheritable variations. 
About the multiverse, it is appropriate to keep 
an open mind, and opinions among scientists differ
widely. In the Austin airport on the way to this meeting 
I noticed for sale the October issue of a magazine called 
'Astronomy', having on the cover the headline "Why You Live 
in Multiple Universes." Inside I found a report of
a discussion at a conference at Stanford, at which Martin 
Rees said that he was sufficiently confident about 
the multiverse to bet his dog's life on it, 
while Andrei Linde said he would bet his own life. 
As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse 
to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog."