[RightWingAtheist]

Any comments from the resident physics club?

[gcruse]

The universe may 'just so' because any other formulation would not allow life to arise. This principle doesn't require intelligent design, not should it. More an example of a broken clock being right eventually. We're here because we can be. There may have been/be 'failed' universes running alongside ours to infinity.

[maxwell]

Well aside from the fact that I have some amount of scorn for theoretical cosmological types, the author's complaint about "ugliness" creeping in, in the form of extra forms, factors, and finitudes, doesn't phase me in the least. A non-perfect system will always require mathematical "tweaking" to some extent. Consider the ideal gas law. To describe a more realistic gas system, one has to consider the fact that the gas particles ain't infinitesmally small and will take up a certain volume, and will interact with each other, for starters...