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To: SunkenCiv

Too hot to sustain life.

No one has managed to refute the anthropic principle yet.

We’re still scouring thaf heavens for a habitable exoplanet.


6 posted on 10/14/2019 8:42:44 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

There’s no need to refute it, it is a philosophical question, a.k.a., a blind belief.

> The anthropic principle usually divides into two types, weak and strong. The weak anthropic principle simply states that the current Universe is of the form that allows intelligent observers. In other words, there is the right amount of complexity and time for intelligence to evolve. This is obviously true and few people disagree with this formulation of the anthropic principle.

> The strong anthropic principle says the Universe has these conditions because it *must* have them in order to have intelligence life (us). Our existence is then end goal of a plan. The strong form of the anthropic principle goes against the Copernican principle by insisting the we are special, an intellectual center of the Universe (all intelligent species would be at their “center”), because we exist and think.

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/cosmo/lectures/lec24.html


20 posted on 10/15/2019 11:26:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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