The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in 1973. Since then, it has sparked significant debate.

The first problem with the Anthropic Principle is that there is no agreement on what it is. The term itself was invented relatively recently, apparently by British cosmologist Brendan Carter ...

We continue our discussion of the Boltzmann Brain - a hypothetical randomly assembled mind rather than an evolved one - by looking at the Anthropic Principle and the Fine-Tuned Universe Theory ...

Whereas the weak version of the anthropic principle poses a logical conundrum, the strong version is essentially a statement of religious belief, namely that the universe has been tuned as it is ...

An interesting twist on these arguments was provided by Anthony Aguirre, who described anthropic constraints on so-called cold cosmological models, in which the initial ratio of photons to baryons ...

Does the Moon exist to aid our progress into space? One of the most remarkable books of the last 30 years is The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John Barrow and Frank Tipler.

In their 1990 book The Early Universe, cosmologists Rocky Kolb and Mike Turner write: “It is unclear to one of the authors how a concept as lame as the ‘anthropic idea’ was ever elevated to the status ...

The Anthropic Principle may be a remarkable starting point, allowing us to place constraints on the Universe's properties owing to the fact of our existence, but that is not a scientific solution ...

One of the most remarkable books of the last 30 years is The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John Barrow and Frank Tipler. The “principle” is really nothing more than a statement that the laws ...

the cosmological constant just by getting up in the morning and smacking around our wives. Isn’t that amazing! And here’s how it works: according to the anthropic principle, ...