Abstract
Let's begin with aDefinition: The Anthropic Principle is the drawing of scientific inferences from a consideration of Man's Place in Nature.There are various versions of the Anthropic Principle. The most conservative version of the Anthropic Principle is nothing but a systematic working out of the fact that the astrophysical (and other scientific) data we have is self-selected due to the fact that Homo sapiens is a particular type of intelligent being. This conservative version of the Anthropic Principle is called theWeak Anthropic Principle (WAP): The observed values of all physical quantities are not equally probable, but rather take on values restricted by the fact that these quantities are measured by a carbon-based intelligent life-form which spontaneously evolved on an earthlike planet around a G2 type star.Again, the Weak Anthropic Principle is just a warning to take into account a grandiose type of selection bias when interpreting data.
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