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Originally Posted by boxcar
And until those scientists make their great discovery, the Antrophic Principle remains a very strong argument for the design, purpose and intentionalty behind the existence of the universe.
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At its best the Anthropic Principle is a
god of the gaps argument, i.e., find some question for which science does not yet have an answer then proclaim "god did it". What happens when science eventually finds the answer? You have to go look for some other gap.
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance." -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think we have closed the gap embodied by the Anthropic Principle. Consider the facts.
- There are four forces in the universe: electromagnetic, gravity, strong and weak.
- Each of those forces take the form F = f(k,x)
- There is a k(constant) for each force, the x being one or more variables.
- All we know comes from our observation of the interactions of those four forces. This includes reading any text since the ink on the page, the page itself, the light by which we read it, the sensing of that light by our optic nerve are all interactions of the four forces.
- If you connect the dots then anything regarded as a physical constant leads back to those four forces and their respective constant k. This applies to even to the masses of atomic particles, Avogadro's number, absolute zero, etc.
- Thus there are only four independent physical constants, and if the unified field theory is correct (the jury is still out) there is only one. And there may be some reason that constant has a specific value. Until we know that "God did it" is not the default answer.
