Anthropic Principle vs Goddidit

[Coffee Jesus]

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Parsimony is about the number of assumptions, not the number of things. All the universes follow from one single assumption, and there's evidence that the assumption may be correct.

Multiverse theories seem like a blank check that throws our specific universe into an anything goes mix of bizzare possibilities. In a Multiverse you can justify any assumption.

You obviously didn't look at the Scientific American article. I'm not obliged to explain this to you, but I will.

You can still determine the averages among the universes, with some features being more frequent than others. It's sort of like the Bell curve.
If the anthropic principle is true, the features of our universe should tend toward the averages, and outliers should only be as frequent as we would expect by chance. We can work out the calculation as a Bonferroni correction, a mathematical technique for defining the null hypothesis when there are "multiple comparisons" being made.
This is how they calculated the expected magnitue of dark energy. When astrophysicists checked it out, they found that the magnitude of dark energy fell within the average.

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Given enough universes with indeterminate outcomes, something like your laptop would eventually show up somewhere.

How do you know this to be true? How do you know in the subset of universes sans intellect....my laptop would eventually show up?

The formation of laptops is permitted under the law of physics, otherwise no intelligent or unintelligent being would ever make them.