Any time I'm confronted with this 'fine tuned for life' card, I'm reminded of this exchange from the outstanding 2008 TV play God On Trial:
Quote:Jacques (François Guétary): How many stars are there in the Universe, do you think? Excuse me, but, uh, before... (chuckles softly) ...before I died, I was a physicist in Paris. There are one hundred thousand million stars in our Galaxy. Just in our Galaxy. And did God make all those stars?
Schmidt (Stephen Dillane): Most certainly. The prophet Amos tells us...
Jacques: What for?
Schmidt: Excuse me?
Jacques: He made one hundred thousand million stars in our Galaxy locally. How many of them have planets, we don't know. And yet, his whole attention is focused on one little planet right down on the edge of an outer spiral. And not even with the whole planet, no. Just with the Jews. This man, who made one hundred thousand million stars, signed a contract with the Jews. Just the Jews. And not even all of the Jews. No, no, no, because Jews like me don't count. So tell me this. If he loved the Jews so much, why did he make anything else? Why didn't he fill the Universe with Jews instead of stars? What's the point?
Schmidt: We don't know the point. It seems amazing to me, too, that in the whole universe, he should choose us.
Jacques: It's not amazing! It's mad! It's simply incorrect! Newborn babies think they are the centre of the Universe. They think they make milk by sucking. They think the world vanishes when they close their eyes. They are... they are wrong. In the Middle Ages, men thought the Sun went round the Earth. They... they were wrong. It's an illusion caused by where you happen to be standing at the time. And it's the same with God. The same! So think. Please, just think!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
