Tag: Anthropic Principle
A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology
Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making.
In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded.
Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different.
Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences
Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error.
Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics
This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe.