>>> Gregory Arago <gregoryarago@yahoo.ca> 7/4/2009 9:00 AM >>> asks:
Do ‘anthropic principles’ qualify under the class ‘scientific,’ Doug – what do you think? Or are they philosophies playing their role in dialogue with science and theology?
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Ted responds.
Answering for myself, Gregory, I do not consider anthropic principles to be scientific. Although they are based on science, they go beyond science into metaphysics. I generally like to appeal to design arguments based on "fine tuning," but I regard those arguments as extra-scientific; I don't believe that it's possible to do much with them, without also talking about theodicy and the identity of the designer. Others may differ with me on this, of course.
Ted
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