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idwiyo

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

Reply to Locut0s (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 11, 2013, 09:35 AM

Dec 2013

implying there is something special, that Universe just couldn't be any other way, it's entire purpose is to accommodate us.

Intelligent design, pure and simple.

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The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe- 15 million years after the Big Bang [View all] n2doc Dec 2013 OP

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