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island island_in_the_stream@earthlink wrote:
Robert J. Kolker wrote:

Uncle Al wrote:

Life is finely tuned to exist in the universe. There is no anthropic
principle. Sentience exists because the universe cannot be bothered
with doing the fine stuff..

The Weak Anthropic principle has validity. It the universe were not a
certain way physically then we would not have evolved. The nature of the
universe must be such that life like ours can evolve in conditions that
existed and exist on Earth. If the universe did not have stars that
exploded and produced the elements of which we are composed we would not
be here. As Carl Sagan used to say " We are all made of sturrr stuffff,
the stuffff of bilyuns and bilyuns of sturrrs"

Bob Kolker


Al isn't denying it's existence, only its relevance.

I thought he was making a joke. "Misanthropic principle". It got a
little giggle from me, at least.
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"When the fool walks through the street, in his lack of understanding he
calls everything foolish." -- Ecclesiastes 10:3, New American Bible