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Reasons To Believe : Anthropic Principle: A Precise Plan for Humanity - 0 views

  • The anthropic principle says that the universe appears "designed" for the sake of human life
  • To state the principle more dramatically, a preponderance of physical evidence points to humanity as the central theme of the cosmos.
  • Evidence of specific preparation for human existence shows up in the characteristics of the solar system, as well
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    The Anthropic Principle, arguably the most human sentient there is. This principle is the concept that due to our timeline of creation, the universe has been created specifically for us. But what about  monkeys? They are as much a result of the laws of nature as we are, perhaps the universe was created for them! This idea of human centrality appears in religion as well as early science - through a geocentric model. But as we move further into the universe, it's clear to see there lays much more than us and such sentiments ... 
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Stephen Hawking on God, Science and the Origins of the Universe - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.Our universe seems to be one of many, each with different laws. That multiverse idea is not a notion invented to account for the miracle of fine tuning. It is a consequence predicted by many theories in modern cosmology. If it is true it reduces the strong anthropic principle to the weak one, putting the fine tunings of physical law on the same footing as the environmental factors, for it means that our cosmic habitat—now the entire observable universe—is just one of many. Each universe has many possible histories and many possible states. Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.
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