Time and the anthropic principle
Mind 101 (403):521-540 (1992)
| Abstract | Carter’s anthropic principle reminds us that intelligent life can find itself only in life-permitting times, places or universes. The principle concerns a possible observational selection effect, not a designing deity. It has no special concern with humans, nor does it say that intelligent life is inevitable and common. Barrow and Tipler, who discuss all this, are not biologically ignorant. As argued in "Universes" (Leslie, 1989) they may well be right in thinking that "fine tuning" of force strengths and particle masses, without which life would be impossible, proves the reality of God or else of multiple universes plus observational selection | |||||||||
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