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Re:Quantum Cosmology, M-theory and the Anthropic Principle by mitmatt on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @09:58AM (#2633100)
Lee Smolin argues pretty concretely and convincingly that the anthropic principle cannot be science because it cannot yield falsifiable predictions:

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407213

On a side note, his book "The Trouble with Physics" is a great (though very pop-physicsy) read on the history and philosophy of physics.

Re:Quantum Cosmology, M-theory and the Anthropic Principle by bediger on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @09:06AM (#2632922)
A paper that argues against any "fine tuning" of the universe to support life: http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.jsp?r=1101.2444&qid=n...

I'm not sure how arxiv.org work, but the paper is arXiv:1101.2444 just in case.

Re:Quantum Cosmology, M-theory and the Anthropic Principle by sili on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @08:59AM (#2632902)
On a side note, the banner for his site is interesting. One would guess that a person his notoriety does not need to explain who he is; Britney Spears does not describe herself as "performer Britney Spears", just the name is enough. I think that shows a string level of humbleness.