Patrick Glynn
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Patrick Glynn, in God: The Evidence (Prima Publishing, 1997) argues that the anthropic principle fails to give us any sense of what we might call - with no inclination toward the blasphemous - as the personhood or particularity of God nor allow us to have any sense of what an afterlife might be like. However, it does provide us with as strong a proof of the existence of God as the great scientific advances that have defined the modern world (beginning with the Copernican revolution, arguably one of the key moments in the shift from pre-modern to modern thinking)provide us with the existence of a world governed by natural, physical principles. In making this argument, Glynn departs at least in some measure from the more usual ones, which tend to favor one set of arguments over the other. Glynn argues that the anthropic principle is just as good as the arguments of science in terms of logic but being superior to scientific arguments in terms of morality (while also at least implying the chance of personal salvation). Given this combination of the promise of God's love and sound intellectual inquiry, Glynn argues that the intelligent person seeking for a meaningful existence should clearly choose the anthropic principle as he has outlined it over a secular and scientific understanding of the world.Glynn's argument is based - at least implicitly - on the fact that much of the power of scientific explanations about the origin of the universe and the essence of human nature arise
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