Open AccessThe New Design Argument and God
Author(s) -
Haig Khatchadourian
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
wisdom/imastut'yun
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2738-2753
pISSN - 1829-3824
DOI - 10.24234/wisdom.v1i6.63
Subject(s) - anthropic principle , argument (complex analysis) , teleology , aside , limiting , teleological argument , epistemology , philosophy , cosmology , theoretical physics , physics , quantum mechanics , chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , biochemistry
This paper aims at a critical discussion and evaluation of a new version of the teleological or design argument for the existence of God advanced by Brandon Carter. In this discussion I shall concentrate on his claims and arguments to “Long Number Coincidences and the Anthropic Principle in Cosmology,”[1] limiting myself to what is called the Strong anthropic principle and leaving aside the even stronger Final anthropic principle. In his paper he makes the following fundamental claims respecting the Strong anthropic principle.