User blog comment:Gmx0/Why Alternate History/@comment-Multiverses are impossible./@comment-149.254.58.42-20100317085400

To believe in the teachings of organised revealed religions one has to maintain credo quia absurdum--"I believe in the unexplained." without which any faith in miracles, immortality, resurrection, transubstantiation, virgin-birth, ladders to heaven and so on cannot exist. One cannot believe in one area of the inexplicable, without giving currency to another.

Spinoza commented that all the complexities of the cosmos are Deus sive natura, the complex thoughts of the divine mind. If you want a supreme God, you have to allow Him to do anything--including the creation of alternate universes, parallel evolution, time travel, intelligent life on other planets and even outright magic.

Islam recognises this as it quotes Allah as the Lord of all Worlds, as does Hinduism and ancient Norse, Egyptian and Classical European faiths. If you can't believe in alternate realties, you can't believe it quantum mechanics either although, perhaps, the Easter Bunny may just make it.