(March 19, 2014 at 8:14 am)discipulus Wrote: Are you knowledgeable enough on the Anthropic Cosmological Principle to participate in a debate whose topic would deal heavily with the principle?
I'm familiar with the basics, enough to know that any debate revolving around it would be simplistic and ultimately redundant, given that my entire position would be that any attempt to use an anthropic principle to prove some form of intelligent designer falls victim to selection bias to begin with, being that it puts the cart before the horse in terms of actually demonstrating the first premise.
That said, I get the feeling you had particular sections of the book in mind, rather than debating the anthropic principle itself. If you're willing to present those in a debate setting- assuming I'm correct in my thinking- then I'll be happy to play defensive and rebut them. Your quote from Craig doesn't exactly make me question my ability to do so, after all.
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