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The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life
Luke A. Barnes
When a physicist says that a theory is fine-tuned, they mean that it must make a suspiciously precise assumption in order to explain a certain observation. This is evidence that th…
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The Trouble with "Puddle Thinking": A User's Guide to the Anthropic Principle
Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes
Are some cosmologists trying to return human beings to the centre of the cosmos? In the view of some critics, the so-called "anthropic principle" is a desperate attempt to salvage…