Transcript: The anthropic principle has been and can be criticized on purely logical grounds. Obviously one of the grounds is the fact that it doesn’t necessarily make predictions. It just seeks to retroactively explain why the universe has properties that would allow life to exist. It’s subject to a more fundamental fallacy as well called the observer’s fallacy. The first point, people should not be surprised that they do not observe features of the universe which are incompatible with their own existence, and the second point that people should not be surprised that they do observe features of the universe which are compatible with their own existence. The first statement is obviously true, but logically the second does not follow from it.