<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ade3530-782a-4315-82f0-8200c0b4ede4/7874C391-DF48-4375-8D5E-7B07554AA970/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784"><P>In <A title="Physics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics" linkindex="5">physics</A> and <A title="Cosmology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology" linkindex="6">cosmology</A>, the <B>anthropic principle</B> is the collective name for several ways of asserting that physical and <A title="Chemistry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry" linkindex="7">chemical</A> theories, especially <A title="Astrophysics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics" linkindex="8">astrophysics</A> and cosmology, need to take into account that there is life on Earth, and that one form of that life, <I><A class="mw-redirect" title="Homo sapiens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens" linkindex="9">Homo sapiens</A></I>, has attained rationality. The only kind of universe humans can occupy is one that is similar to the current one.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784"><P>The anthropic principle has given rise to some confusion and controversy, partly because the phrase has been applied to several distinct ideas. All versions of the principle have been accused of undermining the search for a deeper physical understanding of the universe. Those who invoke the anthropic principle often invoke multiple universes or an <A title="Intelligent designer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_designer" linkindex="24">intelligent designer</A>, both controversial and criticised for being <A title="Falsifiability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability" linkindex="25">untestable</A> and therefore outside the purview of accepted science.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784"><B>Weak anthropic principle (WAP)</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784"><B>Strong anthropic principle (SAP)</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthropic_principle&oldid=312030784"><B>Strong self-sampling assumption (SSSA)</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7874C391-DF48-4375-8D5E-7B07554AA970/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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