The fine tuning of god

[Alan V]

But I'm sure that it's all about the monkeys.

That's all very impressive work by those monkeys, but how does this pertain to the fine tuning of god?

We should discriminate between the fine tuned, anthropocentric universe of theists and any discussion of fine tuning by physicists. The first is the target of Paleophyte's post, and he easily debunks the notion. The second is still a matter of debate, and leads to speculations about a multiverse in which our universe just happens to allow for life, although in very narrow ranges.

Stephen Hawking didn't like the multiverse hypothesis, since he thought it could never be scientific. Therefore, until the end of his life, he sought a way to explain the apparent fine tuning for life in our universe without resorting to such speculations. His associate Thomas Hertog outlined Hawking's thinking on the subject in his book On the Origin Of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory.