I’ve never understood the appeal of the notion of a multiverse for atheists. It substitutes, in place of an infinite God, an inexplicable mechanism capable of producing an infinite number of universes. Among those universes, presumably one has Jesus spontaneously rise from the dead (in an infinite universe or multiverse, everything however improbable happens eventually). Some evolve a universal consciousness akin to certain notions of God. Some evolve superpowered beings akin to the gods of yet other belief systems. Some universes contain no atheists, others contain no religious believers, and still others produce both side by side to irritate one another.
Doesn’t a multiverse inevitably produce infinite universes with not only infinite numbers of “gods” but infinite different sorts of gods as well? And if so, I’m not sure why those who deny the existence of gods find that preferable. Since presumably there must be at least one universe, if not an infinite number of universes, that has a deity like that of the Abrahamic faiths in our universe, isn’t belief in an infinite multiverse or universe intrinsically incompatible with atheism?
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