Stephen Hawking believes infinite multiverses dispense with the need for any intelligence in the process of this Universe. The other 'verses' are conceived to explain this one as just an accident of dumb matter. Is something being missed?

The multiverse story runs kind of like the old story with infinite monkeys, typewriters, time and bananas. Eventually one of them is supposed to crank out the complete works of William Shakespeare. In chronological order perhaps? If you really believe in this then by the same logic one of those monkeys would get it from the word go.

Since the existence of our Universe is so inexplicable, we are asked to believe in an infinite number of "multiverses," just so that one of them might accidentally have come up with the specific sequence of myriad events, forces and phenomenon needed for it to hold together and develop intelligent life (meaning us).

The multiverse route is an odd road for physicists to take considering the complete lack of evidence, measurements or even hints of anything other than the known Universe. Perhaps they take this road believing the only other option is an equally undetectable supernatural character who planned and designed it all - from somewhere else (like humans try to do). But an unsupportable theory in opposition does not prove the cloud cukoo land multiverse idea, heavens no!

There is another road to take and it doesn’t need a name (pantheism or animism come close).; it's just the way things are  Wherever we look in the world we see organization taking place from the bottom up. In the rainforest nobody plots the frog distribution, rainfall patterns and river routes; they self-organize. There is no one architect to the termite mound, with its buttressed walls, perfect ventilation, 'road' network, nurseries and even fungus farms. Entire weather systems self-organize out of water moisture, wind and solar power. Each human cell has 5-10 million inhabitants, functioning and  communicating with each other and other cells - doing life. The brain reading these lines has no central controller telling a hundred billion neurons what to do.   

There is intelligence within the system. It does not need an 'outside' agent to oversee it. We inhabit a living intelligent Universe that is the sum of its parts, not a dead and accidental accumulation of matter. Call it God if you like. Quantum physicists have noticed self-organization on the subatomic level, with the famed David Bohm describing electrons as taking on the qualities of living beings. We bandy about terms like Chi, Prana and the Holy Spirit without considering the implications of such a spirit being all-pervasive.

That this idea should seem strange is stranger than the idea itself.  Though unfamiliar at first, the concept of self-organizing bottom-up intelligence not only makes more sense than the logger-headed alternatives, it makes good sense.

Step into a Universe brimming with intelligence and design, which needs no Intelligent Designer.

Sun of gOd, Discover the Self Organizing Consciousness that Underlies Everything, the book by Gregory Sams, published by Weiser Books