Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. This led to the widespread acceptance of the idea that the universe is dominated by a mysterious substance named 'dark energy' that drives this accelerating expansion. Now, a team of scientists has cast doubt on this standard cosmological concept. The evidence for acceleration may be flimsier than previously thought, they say, with the data being consistent with a constant rate of expansion.-source sciencedaily news
Some physicists have speculated that perhaps if the universe can be made to contract infinite computational power could be obtained as well as infinite computational time. This hypothesized state has been called the omega point, it is a highly controversial idea. I would say that even if evidence for an omega point possibility mounted somehow, the conclusions derived by some regards the implications do not necessarily follow.
Ideas regarding extremely unusual, miracle like events being the product of such, are not necessarily needed as far as I see. Though the reasoning behind such attributions need to be checked, to see if there's any valid reason to do so, especially if evidence mounted to suggest such a potential future. In all likelihood to propagate a religious belief at most only the founder and perhaps a few of the followers need to have certain thoughts or ideas, this can occur via simple natural events without invoking exotic highly unlikely events that would border on physical law violation.
Claims that border on nonsensical have to be regarded as nonsensical, whatever their origin. The likeliest explanation for nonsensical claims is mere natural events of common nature, not uncommon nature. At most one might regard as extremely unlikely the inception of ideas if some form of information could be sent, no extreme uncommon miracle like event need to ever occur.
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