RT Article
T1 Barrow and Tipler's Anthropic Cosmological Principle
JF Zygon
VO 23
IS 2
SP 139
OP 157
A1 Hallberg, Fred W.
LA English
YR 1988
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1827948191
AB Abstract. John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler's recently published Anthropic Cosmological Principle is an encyclopedic defense of melioristic evolutionary cosmology. They review the history of the idea from ancient times to the present, and defend both a “weak” version, and two “strong” versions of the anthropic principle. I argue the weak version of the anthropic principle is true and important, but that neither of the two strong versions are well grounded in fact. Their “final” anthropic principle is a revision of Teilhard de Chardin's evolutionary cosmology. They rectify Teilhard's factual errors but commit even more serious psychological and religious errors of their own.
K1 Natural Theology
K1 evolutionary cosmology
K1 Anthropic Principle
DO 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1988.tb00624.x