Darwin And Divinity
May, 2005
Professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Guelph, Leslie is the author of The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction.[Q] Playboy: What is the anthropic principle?[A] Leslie: It says if you slightly changed any of a large number of basic characteristics of the cosmos, you would get a lifeless universe. These characteristics are such things as the early cosmic smoothness, the expansion rates in the early big bang, the strengths of various forces--such as the relat...
