And these words are coming from a completely secular scientist. However, the anthropic principle goes back all the way to the sages of the Talmud 1500 years ago, who explained why Adam was created on the eve of the Sabbath, at the end of Creation. It is like one who builds a palace and furnishes it, and prepares sumptuous meals, and only then invites his guests. This is the essence of the anthropic principle. Thus far we have dealt with cosmology and astronomy.
Lets talk about the dinosaur.
They were the undisputed masters of our planet. Every evolutionary biologist struggled to explain this. This was finally answered in 1980 by Nobel laureate Luis W. Alvarez. Because we are here today if not for their destruction. Dinosaurs prevented any other large mammals to exist - they would have destroyed all of them, not to mention human life.