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Misuse of the concept of "The Anthropic Principle" The novel refers to "The Anthropic Principle," describing it as the idea that the Universe was designed in such a way that human life would be possible. However, the principle does not quite say that. Instead, it states that, since there is human life in existence in this Universe, then it's obvious that this particular Universe contains the natural laws, conditions, and history that would support life. There could possibly be many other independent "universes" that operate under different physical laws that would not support human life. Since humans can only exist within a universe that supports human life, it should not be too surprising to find that, since humans in fact do exist, we should find ourselves in such a universe.

The novelist alludes to the Anthropic Principle (according to his erroneous definition) in support of the idea that the universe was designed intentionally to spawn human life. This is a misreading of the concept. The principle does not assign any intentionality (or inevitibility) to the rise of human intelligence. It merely says that any universe that includes humans is obviously governed by physical laws that support human life. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.84.8 (talk) 04:18, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]