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Letter: Why some believe in the anthropic principle

Published 23 July 2025

From Bryn Glover, Kirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire, UK

You seem to have omitted the religious connotation usually associated with the “strong” anthropic principle. Those who believe in these things tend to assert that, as the universe was clearly designed to such an exquisite degree to permit life, it therefore follows that there must have been an omniscient designer(28 June, p 32).

Issue no. 3553 published 26 July 2025

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