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Locut0s

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4. I don't like the "Anthropic principle", I feel it's a NON problem...

Reply to idwiyo (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 11, 2013, 09:20 AM

Dec 2013

But I don't see it as being creationism or intelligent design. It just seems like a "non" problem. In fact the scientific explanations created to get around the "problem" are solidly rooted in science and have nothing to do with creationism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant#Anthropic_principle

I'm just not entirely convinced it's something that needs explaining in the first place.

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The anthropic principle, another name for God. DetlefK Dec 2013 #1

"life" as we know it. Carbon based, adapted to specific conditions. idwiyo Dec 2013 #2

I don't like the "Anthropic principle", I feel it's a NON problem... Locut0s Dec 2013 #4

I can't see how it's anything else but. "Universe is the way it is so WE can exist" idwiyo Dec 2013 #5

Sort of... Locut0s Dec 2013 #6

or that the Universe is like Shankapotomus Dec 2013 #8

Does this really argue against the anthropic principle?... Locut0s Dec 2013 #3

Yep....and Venus and Mars could have been teaming with life had the formation of those... BlueJazz Dec 2013 #7