--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > Seems to me "anthropic reasoning" points directly > > to the problem of awareness. > > > > ****************** > > "...the dark energy is infinitesimal and no one has been able to say > why. > > Except, that is, for followers of a controversial doctrine called the > anthropic principle. There is no fundamental reason, they say, why the > dark energy is so weak. It is just that if it were much stronger, space > would have expanded too rapidly to harbor stars and, ultimately, life. > The implication is that there is a multitude of possible universes, > each with its own physics. Naturally, we are in one where it is > possible for us to exist." > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/weekinreview/08johnson.html
Or, as Weinberg put it in the article you linked to earlier and I quoted in my response: "Any scientists who study nature must live in a part of the landscape where physical parameters take values suitable for the appearance of life and its evolution into scientists." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
