Time to talk about one of my pet issues of concern: string theory.

String theory doesn't work, after decades of work by the world's top physicists. At this point, even many mainstream physicists will admit it (most of them privately). They will justify it with by saying things like "We need to keep working on it" or "It's the only thing we ...

... have" (of course, if you don't look for another theory, you're not going to find it).

Which begs two obvious questions: why doesn't string theory work? Why does it remain practically the only mainstream theory when it hasn't worked for decades?

I have my own theory, which I can't prove, but which makes sense of the facts as we have them: string theory is Atheist Epicycles.

You see, string theory presupposes a multiverse, and a multiverse seems to be the only way to make sense, from an atheist perspective, of the ...

... fact that the Universe really (really really) looks like it's fine-tuned for human life. And that makes people really uncomfortable, and so they look for a theory that validates atheism. I'm arguing that the phenomenon is unconscious or semi-conscious in most cases, but ...