The Sap Also Rises: A Critical Examination of the Anthropic Principle

I conclude from these accidents of physics and astronomy that the universe is an unexpectedly hospit? able place for living creatures to make their home in. Being a scientist trained in the habits of thought and language of the twentieth century rather than the eighteenth, I do not claim that the architecture of the universe proves the existence of God. I claim only that the architecture of the universe is consistent with

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