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The Anthropic Principle from a Theological Perspective
The Anthropic Principle from a Theological Perspective

Author(s): Adrian Vasile
Subject(s): Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Religion and science , Philosophy of Religion
Published by: EDIS- Publishing Institution of the University of Zilina
Keywords: Anthropic principle;science;theology;Universe;creation;anthropogeny;God;Revelation;

Summary/Abstract: Through its initiative to make thought efficient for a more secure investigation of nature, modernity will mark a methodology revolutionary step, leading among others to defining and pointing out the coordinates of scientific research, more than any other form of knowledge. This is how the scientific method of knowledge comes into brining. Modernity is what makes an obvious separation of science and theology, as two specific fields of human knowledge. A new paradigm of knowledge is fundamental, as well as the double quality of the philosopher – theologian and scientific, valid today and in the middle Ages, they are as outdated. Science and theology, as different fields of human knowledge have in their being different objects and methodologies. The object of knowledge in science is the world, whereas in theology it is God, and then world. So that in modern science the anthropic principle was adopted.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 32-36
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English