>>12339123There are just too many ‘cosmic coincidences’ necessary for living beings like ourselves to have appeared, for it to be the case that life ‘just happened’, Jacques Monod’s Monte Carlo game notwithstanding. We seem to live in a ‘Goldilocks’ universe, with conditions being ‘just right’ for us to turn up.
Out of all the possible values the physical constants of the universe might have had, they seem, improbably, to have arrived at the narrow range of constants that favour the existence of carbon-based life forms’. That is, us.