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anthropic principle comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
outdated belief	belief
anthropic principle	outdated belief	The weak form of the anthropic principle states that life can exist only during a brief period of the history of our universe. The strong form of the principle states that out of all possible values for the fundamental constants of nature and the initial conditions of the universe, only a small fraction could allow life to form at all, at anytime. (See boundary conditions; fundamental constants of nature.)

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