New Evidence for Big Bang inflation and the Multiverse

Pretty interesting stuff!

"We might never know what happened before inflation, at the very beginning, because inflation erases everything that came before it. All the chaos and randomness of the primordial moment are swept away, forever out of our view."

An interesting choice of words for an interesting discovery. The space ripple essentially confirms the inflation theory of the Big Bang in that there is still a rapid expansion going on. The article explains that this is huge for science because it helps our understanding of many areas including how gravity works. This also supports the theory of a muftiverse, which I've been hearing more and more about in various circles.

How does this effect a view of God as Creator or Designer? It's a non-starter, says Bill Craig. Most of his post is over my head, but he sure knows his cosmology:

The idea that our universe is just a part of a wider multiverse is an expression of what I call the Many Worlds Hypothesis (MWH).... If MWH is to commend itself as a plausible hypothesis, then some plausible mechanism for generating the many worlds needs to be to be explained.  The best shot at providing a plausible mechanism comes from inflationary cosmology, which is often employed to defend the view that our universe is but one domain (or “pocket universe”) within a vastly larger universe, or multiverse.

The bottom line is that a multiverse simply pushes the question of origins back further