They say that if you listen to Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn while watching Disney's Alice In Wonderland, you'll be listening to a good album while watching an under-rated movie.
I think this paragraph from the Wikipedia article outlines the implications pretty well:
Many criticisms focus on versions of the strong anthropic principle, such as Barrow and Tipler's anthropic cosmological principle, which are teleological notions that tend to describe the existence of life as a necessary prerequisite for the observable constants of physics. Similarly, Stephen Jay Gould,[65][66] Michael Shermer,[67] and others claim that the stronger versions of the anthropic principle seem to reverse known causes and effects. Gould compared the claim that the universe is fine-tuned for the benefit of our kind of life to saying that sausages were made long and narrow so that they could fit into modern hotdog buns, or saying that ships had been invented to house barnacles. These critics cite the vast physical, fossil, genetic, and other biological evidence consistent with life having been fine-tuned through natural selection to adapt to the physical and geophysical environment in which life exists. Life appears to have adapted to the universe, and not vice versa.
Yes, Alice in Wonderland is a much better movie than is commonly recognized, because, and not in spite, of it's picaresque nature. Ed Wynn and Sterling Holloway turn in great performances.
And Piper At The Gates Of Dawn's place in psychedelica history is assured.
i'm not sure how the anthropic principle could be used to support religion
The world was made for us because God made man in His image yadda yadda yadda.
I've always seen the anthropic principle used the opposite direction. To dispute the idea that the universe could have been designed, and therefore disprove religion.
Person A: Intelligent life can only exist if certain universal constants are within a very narrow range. A universe created by random chance is unlikely to get all the constants within that range. Intelligent life exists. Therefore design, therefore God. Person B: You can't observe a universe without intelligent life, so 100% of all observable universes will be capable of supporting intelligent life. That's not design. Checkmate, theists.
i'm not sure how the anthropic principle could be used to support religion
The world was made for us because God made man in His image yadda yadda yadda.
I've always seen the anthropic principle used the opposite direction. To dispute the idea that the universe could have been designed, and therefore disprove religion.
Person A: Intelligent life can only exist if certain universal constants are within a very narrow range. A universe created by random chance is unlikely to get all the constants within that range. Intelligent life exists. Therefore design, therefore God. Person B: You can't observe a universe without intelligent life, so 100% of all observable universes will be capable of supporting intelligent life. That's not design. Checkmate, theists.
i'm not sure how the anthropic principle could be used to support religion
The world was made for us because God made man in His image yadda yadda yadda.
I've always seen the anthropic principle used the opposite direction. To dispute the idea that the universe could have been designed, and therefore disprove religion.
Person A: Intelligent life can only exist if certain universal constants are within a very narrow range. A universe created by random chance is unlikely to get all the constants within that range. Intelligent life exists. Therefore design, therefore God. Person B: You can't observe a universe without intelligent life, so 100% of all observable universes will be capable of supporting intelligent life. That's not design. Checkmate, theists.
Also, Pyrid: Ganja is another word for weed, specifically dried marijuana buds as opposed to hardened resin or oil (hashish) or powdered secretions mixed with tobacco (kif).
Also, Pyrid: Ganja is another word for weed, specifically dried marijuana buds as opposed to hardened resin or oil (hashish) or powdered secretions mixed with tobacco (kif).
:O I wouldn't ever lay my hand such kind of substance! U_U
Also, Pyrid: Ganja is another word for weed, specifically dried marijuana buds as opposed to hardened resin or oil (hashish) or powdered secretions mixed with tobacco (kif).
:O I wouldn't ever lay my hand such kind of substance! U_U
You know, St. Vincent's B-sides from her earlier albums were generally very low-key, but this could easily be an album cut, in terms of quality and intensity.
Personally, I'm intrigued by Hugh Ross's take on anthropism. His hypothesis: If God or a similar intelligent force created the universe, intending for intelligent life to arise and to learn important facts about the nature of the universe, then as we learn more about the nature of the universe, we'll find more and more universal constants that must be fine-tuned in order for intelligent life to exist.
But if the universe is just a product of random chance, then future universal constants we discover will be roughly evenly split between ones that have to be fine-tuned, and ones where any old value would support intelligent life.
I'm not entirely sure if the logic holds up, but I'm glad he's at least trying to make a testable model out of this.
^ I'm not sure that one or the other proves or disproves anything regarding the question of divinity. Faith is faith and if God exists, I'm pretty sure that such a being's existence would be scientifically neither provable or disprovable anyway.
(*evil jeff mangum voice*) I HATE YOU JEEEEESUS CHRIIIIIIST
(David Byrne voice) COME ON DOWN, YOU OLD FART! LET'S SEE IF YOU HAVE GOT A HEART! IT AIN'T TRUE! IT'S ALL LIES! ARE YOU THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE? WON'T GIVE UP! WON'T BOW DOWN! I'M GONNA TEAR YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN!
You know, "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a remarkably strange song in many, many ways. That downward chord change in the first part of the chorus is downright unnerving.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
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Let's go back to Marshall Durben's and hang some more chickens cuz
I also like these nested quotes
YNTKT
Person A: Intelligent life can only exist if certain universal constants are within a very narrow range. A universe created by random chance is unlikely to get all the constants within that range. Intelligent life exists. Therefore design, therefore God.
Person B: You can't observe a universe without intelligent life, so 100% of all observable universes will be capable of supporting intelligent life. That's not design. Checkmate, theists.
same
"Hai, look at these blocks"
The thread: But then the mass expansion of the universe is globity gock
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I wouldn't ever lay my hand such kind of substance! U_U
Good. I detest that stuff.
But if the universe is just a product of random chance, then future universal constants we discover will be roughly evenly split between ones that have to be fine-tuned, and ones where any old value would support intelligent life.
I'm not entirely sure if the logic holds up, but I'm glad he's at least trying to make a testable model out of this.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
evolution of a classic