That's a good article, thanks. I agree with Barrow and Tipler's definition of anthropic principles:
- The observed values of all physical and cosmological quantities are not equally probably but they take on values restricted by the requirement that there exists sites where carbon-based life can evolve and by the requirement that the Universe be old enough for it to have already done so.
- The Universe must have those properties which allow life to develop within it at some stage in history.
I also agree that these can't be extended to include our particular form and consciousness, nor to infer any element of 'design'.
I take from these definitions that the universe must have the properties as described, but that there could well be other forms of matter and life which we are yet to theorise or observe.