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Science deals with problems that attempts to solve with the help of strict methods. In its continuous struggle for explanations, science discovers apparently insoluble difficulties, or new, deep and important questions whose answers elude the use of scientific methodology, and so they enter in the realm of speculative philosophy. Among them is the so called Anthropic Principle proposed from science to provide an answer to the enigma of man's presence in the cosmos: against all odds, the chance of man's appearance in the evolution stream was less probable that getting hole in one (in golf) out of the first strike of a blind player affected with the disease of Parkinson! Although this principle involves a process of creation, construction, of harmonic growth directed from the Big Bang to the arrival of the Homo Sapiens, the essay, after presenting numerous scientific and some historical data, concludes that aggressive and destructive impulses of the human being allow us to conjecture that instead of being the goal of evolution, mankind may be conceived only as a mere provisional link of one unfinished evolutionary chain.
