Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "It's so over.." video.
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@EnRaye There's a recent book, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory, that delves into the topic in-depth. It's quite cerebral, and I've only read a small part of it so far, but there are a surprising amount of physics scientists that delve into this topic. Needless to say, it's hotly debated, but it makes sense if you start from the point of reason that quantum mechanics dictates that the universe actually changes when it is observed by man, among a few other things. Of course, this principle (aka the Schrodinger's Cat principle) is itself based on our own observation. In my opinion this causes a cycle of infinite regression. We observe test results and dictate they must be affected by our own observation because nothing else explains it. But that, itself, is one of our own observations. And my observation of that is also human. You can regress this infinitely. You, reading this comment, are also arguably affected by this. We cannot be sure that our own observations are reliable and that there is not another phenomenon at play here.
However, there was a principle formulated in the 1970s called the "anthropic principle" which takes this idea to its logical conclusion: the reason why we are in a universe that is "suited to life" is because we are observing it. I think it's self-evident why this theory is controversial. Substitute man for another observer, like God, and you're a theist.
I'd recommend reading the book if you're interested on what Hawking thought of God, and how he constructed an environmentally-based theory to explain the universe, in large part to spite theists and the anthropic principle. By enviromentally-based, I mean sort of like Darwinism or natural selection. It goes deep into multiverse theory and such.
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