The guiding principle of Enlightenment philosophy in its dealings with science is as given by Richard Lewontin above. God is ruled out a priori. It is a key tenet of Enlightenment thinking that religious speculation does not produce knowledge. Hence any theory of origins—no matter how complicated, convoluted, or counterintuitive—is to be preferred. The initial response is to form a different interpretation of the Anthropic Principle. One starts with Carter’s original formulation, now widely referred