Parallel universes vs religion and other scientific theories and finds

Round 1
Joel_Asher: "I believe that when we speak of heaven and hell we are only speaking of two out of many parallel worlds in which cross ours like a cats cradle. I believe that it all is concieved in a mix of chaos and that the string theory is true for every strummed string emits a wave starting an effect in which changes the course of history. I am not just speaking of actual strings but of cause and effect and how every decision branches off a new world in which that decision was made differently or not made at all.This all has to do with quantum physics and quantum mechanics which covers how chaos is order and picks apart the paradoxes that perplex our lives in this world. So my question is what are the other opinions out there? who could counter act science and the proof that it has offered us? Also to be more specific I also believe God himself is the one scientist and that science and religion can coexist and cooperate together."

Ragnar_Rahl: "I'm afraid I'm entirely unaware of how quantum mechanics provides for a "parallel universe" or multitude thereof. Universe, in the Oxford English Dictionary means: "all existing matter and space considered as a whole." As such analytically speaking "alternate universe" is an absurdity. If x exists, x is necessarily a part of this universe, because "this universe" is simply whatever exists. Per basic logic, A is A and cannot be non-A.

Science, as an empirical discipline, could not offer "proof" of any unknown realm, except by observing it.

If you wanted to debate a religionist, I'm sorry to disappoint you, because all the words "hell" and "heaven" mean to me are, respectively, the state of slavery in which most humans in history have existed, and the state of absolute elimination of force and fraud that hypothetically occurs when enough people agree with me.

I also cannot see how causality "creates" a new universe, unless of course someone were to succeed in backwards time travel, which is unlikely and a recent experiment regarding beyond-lightspeed lasers seems to contradict in any case. A choice or a chance does not of any necessity determine that all options must be realized somewhere, it simply means that at the time the choice or chance was there, both outcomes had to be possible. Chance in nature outside of choice is of course notoriously difficult to pin down at the fundamental level in any case.

I think you'll have to bring more detail of these "proofs" of parallel universes before anything specific heats up here though."