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A friend writes to say that Darwin's co-theorist Alfred Russel
Wallace (1823-1913) argued strongly for a theistic version of the anthropic principle in his
Man's Place in the Universe (1904) anticipating the excellent book by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards The
Privileged Planet by precisely 100 years. Interestingly, Wallace argued vehemently in 1907 against Percival Lowell (1855-1916). Wallace insisted that the "canals" [on Mars] were the product of fissures created over long periods of time.
But then, Lowell was seeing science fiction and Wallace was seeing nature. It matters.
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| Lowell's canals concept, Wikimedia Commons |
