In
a similar way, John Barrow uses the Anthropic Principle, not as an argument for
design, but as a way of allowing biology to place constraints on physics (i.e.,
conditions that are required if the evolution of life is to be possible), and
these constraints lead Barrow to the discovery of new explanations of hitherto
disparate phenomena in physics. Such
explanations seem like prime examples of what Murphy, using Lakatos, would call
novel facts, suggesting Barrows research program is progressive. See Barrows presentation and paper at this
conference. Note the unusual way in
which "novelty" is used by Murphy / Latakos.
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