Originally Posted by
Ngc1514
The important part of your post was "life as we know it..." You are falling back on the fine tuning argument. It reduces to "if x was just a little different, life as we know it would not exist." X can be any of a number of different physical or chemical properties. It's an argument that boils down to "Life would not exist if life could not exist." Not a very useful observation.
The whole issue of fine tuning disappears if modern cosmological hypotheses about an infinite number of universes becomes testable and verified. Searches are underway for possible signs of universe interactions in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
You might try Stenger's "The Fallacy of Fine Tuning."
I'm still waiting for an answer of who pronounced Betty dead.