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Little bit of content there, eh? My initial observations. I am somewhat surprised it quotes David Albert, his book "Quantum Mechanics and Experience" was somewhat trashed by the community, although I found it a very refreshing way of looking at things, as he delves into the epistemology of the whole thing. I know if I stick a pin in my arm, it hurts, so I exist, yet I am not able to grab or cling to any solipstic theory. I'm not smart enough to create the universe. There are many more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my imagination.

But it seems patently obvious to me that before the BB, there must have been laws. Remember high school math and truth tables? The universe, time, space, matter could not exist without the CONCEPT of truth tables, whether they are writen down or not is somewhat moot. Neither do I ascribe to the current anthropomorphic view that we just happen to be here at what just happens to be the right time. There might be life on Europa, a moon covered by water orbiting Jupiter, lots of energy there because of tidal effects of Jupiter. I wonder if Europans think life is impossible on that distant blue planet, was too close to the sun...
Finally, I have done some siple statistical mechanics type projections about what might happen in one mole of H2O. Turns out the numbers you start getting are so fantastically large, that one is forced to reject the hypothesis that "everything that can happen will happen". But the numbers tell another story... even though the universe seems old (as we measure things) it seems in fact to be quite young! Oh well, will keep eading later.