Nature

[Darwinian]

Hmm, Fred Hoyle, Steady State? Turns out he was wrong about that as well..

If you had lived at that time, you would have believed it too. Amazing how science can be completely wrong about something, isn't it?

Amazing how science is constantly moving forward and discovering new things which overturn old theories. We must never fall in love with our theories and when new evidence comes to light we must be prepared modify or even completely disregard them, but, we will have learnt something in the process.

Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing

No it doesn't. No-one knows what happened before the big bang or even if there was 'a before' so to state that the universe was created out of nothing is simply a belief with zero evidence to back it up.

one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say ‘supernatural’) plan.”

The universe is, as you say, balanced precisely to allow life and consciousness because if it were not then we would not be here to ponder the question in the first place.

It would be absurd to postulate a universe where the constants are such that life could never evolve with beings in that universe asking themselves the same question.

So, the very fact that we are here discussing this must mean that this universe is compatible with life.

Douglas Adams puddle springs to mind.