Anthropic Principle
	The anthropic principle states that were the universe not as we see it, life, and ultimately humans, could not exist. The anthropic principle does not explain anything. It is merely a statement of fact. Countless physical parameters, for instance, the mass and charge of elementary particles, the critical density of matter in the universe, dimensions of space-time, to name only a few, are necessary for the origin and evolution of life as we know it.        The compelling question is, how all these critical parameters came to exist. It would be ridiculous to think they came about so humans could exist. More realistic is the question: did they come about as a result of physical laws which will one day be understood? Or did they come about simply by chance, the result of countless possibilities encountering conditions resulting from other countless possibilities-whether from an unpredictable and random nature, the universe, with one or more small planets capable of creating and supporting life came about?