Wendy N. reviewed on 1/18/2011 + 177 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This VERY short book covers much of the same ground covered back in the 80's in "A Brief History of Time" which I recommend over this one, as it covers it in a much more in-depth manner. Stephen Hawking seems to be trying to cash in on the new Atheism movement by stressing that the anthropic principle answers the question of why our environment is so perfectly suited for life--if it weren't, we wouldn't be here to ask the question--and so a creator god is not required. He said this in Brief History of Time. The only new wrinkle is that M-Theory now supports the idea of an infinite number of universes, so the anthropic principle also applies to the laws of physics.

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