This video is from the BBC Horizion documentary series and is provided as reference and not as cannon. Please use discrestion and discernment compareing any and all that is said with your biblical filter engaged. Man is not infallible, God is.
VHS nostalgia -- This project has been patched together from varios sources a BBC HORIZONS broadcast from Season 23, Episode 17, entitled The Anthropic Principle including ast least one VHS recording. After the first quarter of the video the source material changes to a better quality source without as many distracting artifacts.
Abstract / Summary In this documentary, physicists and astronomers assess the Anthropic Principle - mankind's place at the centre of the Universe and further theories arising from it.
SYNOPSIS: In 1974 Dr Brandon Carter put forward the anthropic principle - the fact that we are here places restrictions on what the universe can look like. Dr Carter later put forward a more controversial theory - that the universe must allow intelligent life to develop in it at some stage. Professor John Wheeler recently proposed the participatory anthropic principle: man or intelligent life is the whole means by which the universe is created; without them, there is nothing. So what brings us into existence? Scientists have now formed the final anthropic principle: intelligent life must come into existence in the universe, and once it has done so it will never die out.
