[edwin hubble]

Weak Anthropic Principle: For whatever reason,(we don't know) the universe was precisely tuned such that our live exists.

Therefore, life like ours may be common in the universe.

[Erasmus]

I think the article fails to make a crucial point about the Anthropic Principle, which can be stated something like this:

"OK, so all these natural constants are precisely (not to say miraculously) tuned so that we can exist. And what do you know, we seem actually to exist.

Now, what if these constants were not tuned this way? Well, we'd all be sitting around pissing and moaning about the fact that we can't and therefore don't exist, right? Of course not! If the constants weren't exactly right, we wouldn't exist, and there would of course be no discussions on the subject.

So, to say that it's wonderful that all these eager-to-please constants are just right for our existence is scarce wonder. The mere fact that we exist proves that the constants are good-to-go for us to exist, but it says nothing about whether it might have been otherwise but for the intervention of some Creator, or might be otherwise in proposed parallel universes."

Ed, check me on this. Is this a statement of the "Strong Anthropic Principle?"