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May 17, 2018
When the subject of the "anthropic principle" vs the "ontological principle" comes up, I just sigh and screen out the pro and con religious "philosophical" noise. I'm a physicist with a PhD from a top 5 physics school, and almost all of the highly intelligent physicists I have known are agnostics. Speaking of only the very best physicists I have known, none claimed to be atheists, and only a few Christians & Jews have expressed belief in the existence of "A Supreme God" --- if that is the correct expression for their beliefs, which vary from person to person. Most of us just sit back and say "There is no provable evidence that god exists, and there is no provable evidence that god does not exist." That's because science is based upon provable observations, and religion is based upon faith --- and the two are mutually exclusive, and we physicists are philosophically stuck in the middle in "I Don't Know Land'. I'm far more comfortable being a skeptic than a pro or con extremist.