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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 22 May 2009 10:59:20PM 0 points [-]

The Gift We Give To Tomorrow:

"Because it's only a miracle from the perspective of the morality that was produced, thus explaining away all of the apparent coincidence from a merely causal and physical perspective?"

Well... I suppose you could interpret the term that way, yes. I just meant something that was immensely surprising and wonderful on a moral level, even if it is not surprising on a physical level.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 23 May 2009 05:19:57PM 0 points [-]

i dub thee the weak anthropic morality principle.