Aren’t you simply begging the question? If you have a universe where a fact happens almost surely and another where it almost never happens, but that fact indeed happens, simple logic dictates that the first universe should be favored. However, I’ve seen no reason to justify that the probability of life should tend to zero given our normal universe nor that the magical universe should be the only other alternative.
I don’t believe that the probability of life in our universe is almost zero, but you can read all about the Fine-Tuned Universe argument at Wikipedia which is how this claim is most often made. My post is not targeted at the question of whether life really is that unlikely (I suspect that the parameters needed for life are not as strict as often claimed, only for life as we know it). The question I am trying to examine is whether the anthropic principle is a sufficient counter to the Fine-Tuned Universe (it is not); I’ll leave it to other people to discuss other objections to the Fine-Tuned Universe.
Aren’t you simply begging the question? If you have a universe where a fact happens almost surely and another where it almost never happens, but that fact indeed happens, simple logic dictates that the first universe should be favored.
However, I’ve seen no reason to justify that the probability of life should tend to zero given our normal universe nor that the magical universe should be the only other alternative.
How am I begging the question? That isn’t clear.
I don’t believe that the probability of life in our universe is almost zero, but you can read all about the Fine-Tuned Universe argument at Wikipedia which is how this claim is most often made. My post is not targeted at the question of whether life really is that unlikely (I suspect that the parameters needed for life are not as strict as often claimed, only for life as we know it). The question I am trying to examine is whether the anthropic principle is a sufficient counter to the Fine-Tuned Universe (it is not); I’ll leave it to other people to discuss other objections to the Fine-Tuned Universe.