FratFiles

• Save Paper

The Anthropic Principle
In the early 1970s, Brandon Carter stated what he called "the anthropic principle": that what we can expect to observe "must be restricted by the conditions necessary for our presence as observers" (Leslie ed. 1990). Carter's word "anthropic" was intended as applying to intelligent beings in general. The "weak" version of his principle covered the spatiotemporal districts in which observers found themselves, while its "strong" version covered their universes, but the distinction between spatiotemporal districts and universes, and hence between the weak principle and the strong, could not always be made firmly: one writer's "universe" could sometimes be another's "gigantic district". Moreover, the necessity involved was never -- not even in the case of the "strong anthropic principle" -- a matter of saying that some factor, for instance God, had made our universe utterly fated to be intelligent-life-permitting, let alone intelligent-life-containing. However,......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 538
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Anthropic Principle
   

   anthropic principle The Anthropic Principle In the early 1970s, Brandon Carter stated what he called "the anthropic principle": that what we can expect to observe "must be

2. Life In The Universe
   

   However, one has to be careful about such arguments, because of what is known as the Anthropic Principle. This is based on the self-evident truth, that if the universe had not

3. Personal Gods, Deism, &Amp; Ther Limits Of Skepticism
   

   depending on whether one subscribes to a naturalistic or to a deistic God, the Strong Anthropic Principle and Weak Anthropic Principle, the latter also known as the "God of the

4. Cosmology: Science Vs Religion
   

   this to happen. After a series of questioning, most reach the conclusion of God. The Anthropic Principle is a prime example of pointing out that there is some evidence for God

5. Existence Of God
   

   argument from design in assessing the nature of the universe. This theory is known as the Anthropic Principle. There are variations within this principle, but the basic foundation