From this recognition arises the anthropic principle, which says that everything about the universe tends toward man, toward making life possible and sustaining it. The first popularizer of the principle, American physicist John Wheeler, describes it in this way: “A life-giving factor lies at the centre of the whole machinery and design of the world.”1 Of course, design in the natural world has been acknowledged since the beginning of recorded history. Divine design is the message of each of the
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