The Design Argument: The Anthropic Priciple

Question 1

The Anthropic Principle: key idea

Answer 1

• The universe seems fine tuned to human life, as seen with gravity
• science keeps discovering the natural as beign ordered, adding to this claim

Question 2

The Anthropic Principle: How many type

Answer 2

Three: weak, strong, aesthetic

Question 3

The Strong Anthropic Principle

Answer 3

• Claiming the universe is designed to one day hold human life
• supported by the idea of the Goldilocks zone

Question 4

The Anthropic Principle: Critique of the Strong

Answer 4

• highly anthropocentric
• too simplistic, the whole universe for one planet
• doubles Adam’s puddle thinking the hole was made for him

Question 5

The Weak Anthropic Principle

Answer 5

• the world is set up for creatures like humans (carbon based), but not nec humans
• life is possible, but not guarantee
• Martin Reese: the world is made of bio Philip contestants, like the amount of dark matter

Question 6

The Anthropic Principle: evaluation of the weak anthropic principle

Answer 6

For:
- uses modern science
Against:
- universe tolerates life, not encourages it
- we shouldn’t be supervised that we can observe a universe with life, as it is the only type of universe that can be observed

Question 7

The Anthropic Principle: The Aesthetic

Answer 7

• we dont need beautiful things, yet we have them
• like friendship or flowers being beautiful
• suggests a designer

Question 8

The Anthropic Principle: Weakness of Aestetics

Answer 8

• beauty if subjective
• the cause of beauty could be difffernt, but the effect would be the same
• people besides god can make beautiful things