Originally Posted by
Dragon
Who is the Anthropic Principal? Some senior figure at your High School?
Oh, and appearances can, of course, be deceptive.
The current Theory of Evolution does not require any "striving for comlpexity" or any striving at all, just variability, the occasional mutation and differential survival. All of which we know to exist.
Didn't some 14th century friar say, "Plurality should not be assumed without necessity"?
I think he was a monk. Anyway, by the end it didn't matter because he was excommunicated for calling the Pope a heretic...