How does the "Anthropic Principle" stand against the false theories of Evolutionary Science?

Question

What is so significant about this principle? Why is it celebrated by Christian Scientists?

Answer 1

The anthropic Principle uses science to work out whether life could exists in certain environments or conditions.

I think you mixed up the Anthropic Principle with anthropic or anthropic bias.
"Within the scientific community the usual approach is to invoke selection effects from a real ensemble of alternate universes, which cause an anthropic bias in what can be observed; competing strategies, occasionally also called anthropic, include intelligent design."





By the way Evolution is proved and can be demonstrated in thousands of examples. Do you own a dog? where did the pit-bull come from? I've never seen them in the wild or did they evolve from another species.

Answer 2

Actually, I think that more often than not the anthropic principle is used to defend theories that assert that the universe is favorable to life by chance rather than by intelligent design. The idea is that it is not really so incredible that the age of the universe, physical laws of nature, temperature and atmosphere of the earth, etc. are all so favorable to life, because if the conditions weren't favorable to life, we wouldn't be here to see it. Perhaps its an extremely unlikely combination of conditions that supports the random rise of life forms, but if it happened just once, throughout billions and billions of eons and even different universes, that would be enough, and we would be here, wondering why conditions happen to be so favorable to life. It seems some people have somehow used the anthropic principle to argue that the universe must have been designed for us intelligently, but the entire point of the anthropic principle is that intelligent design isn't necessary, I think.

Sorry, but that's the anthropic principle as conceived by scientists. I did a quick google search to try to find how ID proponents actually turn this around to their advantage, but all I came up with was scientists using the anthropic principle to criticize ID.

Answer 3

Evolutionary science isn't a false theory. It has been tested and retested and has yet to be falsified.

Scientologists are a little whacked out, in my opinion.

Answer 4

Scientologists and Christian Scientists (and Christian scientists) are not the same thing--all profess different beliefs.