This isn’t the first time Easterbrook has conflated serious cosmological theorizing by physicists with gassy wishful thinking about a spirit world. He published a similar article in Wired, in December 2002.

Several variations on the multiverse theory are popular in academia because they suggest how our universe could have beaten the odds without a guiding hand. But the multiverse idea rests on assumptions that would be laughed out of town if they came from a religious text. Townes has said that speculation about billions of invisible universes “strikes me as much more freewheeling than any of the church’s claims.” Tenured professors at Stanford now casually discuss entire unobservable universes. Compare that to religion’s proposal of a single invisible plane of existence: the spirit.

He also tosses in pious sentiments about how those wise Intelligent Design theorists are going to bring balance and understanding to a discipline split between orthodox Darwinians and creationists. What a clueless puke.