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 anthropic principle was first introduced, it appears, by astrophysicist Brandon Carter at a conference in Krakow, Poland, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus.

Physicists who are inclined to believe in God refer to the Cosmos as an “Anthropic Universe” — a universe made specifically, perfectly, for humanity. This idea was first promulgated in 1973 ...

Now as I explained earlier, you can’t just invoke the anthropic principle, it requires that there be multiple values of the Cosmological Constant realized in the “Universe” — however ...

Only a small range of possible values for the universal constants (such as the mass of an electron) are consistent with the presence of life as we know it. The significance of such apparent fine ...

Professor Meißner agrees: "In that sense," he says, "our Universe has a preferred status, and this is the basis of the so-called Anthropic Principle." (From Science China Press) ...

Physicists inclined to believe in God refer to the cosmos as an “anthropic universe” — a universe made specifically, perfectly, for humanity. This idea was first promulgated in 1973 by ...