Victor J. Stenger and other critics say both intelligent design and the weak form of the anthropic principle are essentially a tautology; in his view, these arguments amount to the claim that life is able to exist because the Universe is able to support life.
Stenger (Victor J. Stenger) i ostali kritičari kažu da inteligentni dizajn i antropični princip su u suštini tautologije; u njegovom pogledu ti argumenti se drže tvrdnje da je život moguć jer je svemir u stanju da održava život.