[escepticos] RE: Anthropic Design:Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose?

["Antoni Mont" <josep.mont@...>]

[Pedro J. Hernandez (Reproduciendo un artículo de J. Stenger)]

Anthropic Design:
Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose?

February 20, 1999

To be submitted to Skeptical Inquirer

(...)
The existence of many universes is consistent with all we know about
physics and cosmology (Smith 1990, Smolin 1992, 1997, Linde 1994,Tegmark
1997). Some theologians and scientists dismiss the notion as a gross
violation of Occam's razor. It is not. No new hypothesis is needed to
consider multiple universes. In fact, it takes an added hypothesis to
rule them out-- a super law of nature that says only one universe can
exist. But we know of no such law, so we would violate Occam's razor to
insist that only one universe exists. Another way to express this is
with lines from T. H. White's The Once and Future King: "Everything not
forbidden is compulsory."
(...)
This is a much abridged version of a longer essay entitled The Anthropic
Coincidences: A Natural Explanation to appear  in the Skeptical
Intelligencer.

[Toni]
Tambien aquí la navaja de Occam fué esgrimida para quitar sentido a la
idea de los universos múltiples. (A veces la tal navaja me recuerda una
navaja multiusos, a la que todo el mundo le encuentra uno apropiado a su
argumentación). Además de las muchas referencias que aporta el autor
--inevitablemente en Inglés-- hay un librito muy asequible y en español
que expone la idea: "En el principio...El nacimiento del universo
viviente" de John Gribbin, Alianza Editorial, 1994.

Saludos,

Toni