Most recent invocations of the an-thropic principle have originated with physicists, especially those worried about the implausibility of the precise physical attributes of the universe being so finely tuned to allow the emergence of life and eventually humans. Despite the post hoc fallacy of such arguments, a recent New York Times report on a conference at Case Western Reserve University reveals that some physicists persist in entertaining this line of thought. Biologists have contributed far less to these discussions, possibly because we are generally so concerned with the particulars of life that the broad generalities of the anthropic debate elude us. But the claims of evidence of life in the Martian meteorite ALH84001 and the consequent development of astrobiology—a field predicated on "n = 1, generalize to the rest of the universe"—have sparked renewed scholarly interest in the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe and the meaning of life on Earth.
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机译：关于人类原理的最新调用起源于物理学家，尤其是那些担心宇宙的精确物理属性难以置信的微调，以至于无法使生命乃至人类的出现。尽管这些论点是事后谬论，但最近《纽约时报》在凯斯西储大学的一次会议上的一份报告显示，一些物理学家仍然坚持这种思路。生物学家对这些讨论所做的贡献少得多，这可能是因为我们通常如此关注生活的特殊性，以至于人类辩论的广泛普遍性使我们难以为继。但是，关于火星陨石ALH84001中生命证据的主张以及随之而来的天体生物学的发展（一个以“ n = 1，泛化到整个宇宙其余部分”为基础的领域），引起了学者们对地球上其他地方生命的可能性重新产生了兴趣。宇宙和地球生命的意义。
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