Is the Weak Anthropic Principle Compatible With Divine Design?
The teleological argument, or argument from design, is considered by many to be one of the strongest arguments for the existence of god(s). Many proponents of this argument point to the improbability of a universe existing with properties compatible with the existence of observers as evidence that the universe was designed. This fine-tuning argument argues that the probability of the universe existing with the features compatible with our existence is prohibitively low and therefore necessitate a divine designer. But is the improbability of the universe existing with compatible features evidence for divine design? Many scientists don’t think so. An alternative explanation can be found in the book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle .[1] This book argues that even if there is a very high improbability of the universe existing with observers, the properties of the universe that allow us to exist are also what allow us to observe the universe with properties compatible with the existence
