Even An Atheist Can Believe In The God Of The Gaps

Ever since the scientific community lost its privileges to invoke God as the natural cause of all phenomena, these clever agnostics* invented the anthropic principle (cop-out) to explain to non-specialists things like the reason our universe is capable of supporting life is because that if it didn't, we wouldn't be around to wonder why!

Okay, so the logic is air-tight, but an interesting corollary to the anthropic principle is the fact that efforts to expand upon it (beating a dead horse) involve coming up with all the different ways that things aren't and comparing them to the way things are.

And, it turns out that the anthropic principle can be so god-of-the-gaps-damn fun that you can use it to play bingo while pondering the dimensional significance of space-time!

Illustration courtesy of The Constants of Nature, John D. Barrow

("We are here" and "Tachyons only" are both depicted as white squares above because the author may be traveling faster than the speed of light.)

* Scientists are often unfairly assumed to be atheists, which is clearly not the case