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I'm struggling a bit with Dawkin's explanation of the 'Anthropic Principle' (The God Delusion, pp.134ff). The appearance of the first hereditary molecule is extremely improbable, as is the origin of the eucaryotic cell with a nucleus and mitochondria. But since these things do exist, their appearance and origin obviously did happen, and we must live on one of the intensely rare planets where such things are possible. It seems like a circular argument to me, and not a convincing argument against the possibility that our cosmos has a Designer.