The Goldilocks Enigma

Professor Paul Davies' The Goldilocks Enigma tackles fundamental questions about the nature of the universe and our attempts to understand it. And central to finding this solution, he says, is answering the Goldilocks Enigma - why is it that "the universe seems 'just right' for life"? (could be because it is, it was made that way…IF)

Two major developments have bolstered scientists' confidence that the answers lie within their grasp.
The first is the enormous progress made in cosmology - the study of the large-scale structure and evolution of the universe.
The second development is the growing understanding of the microscopic world within the atom (how many times is that now that we have almost had the answer? The first time that science thought it had all the answers was how many millenniums ago? May be 42 is the answer, hitchhikers guide, what we need is to figure out the question …I like the official question, how many roads must a man walk down? IF)

These spectacular advances hint at a much grander synthesis: nothing less than a complete and unified description of nature, a final 'theory of everything' in which a flawless account of the entire physical world is encompassed within a single explanatory scheme.

If almost any of the basic features of the universe, from the properties of atoms to the distribution of the galaxies, were different, life would very probably be impossible.

a biofriendly universe looks like a fix - or 'a put-up job', to use the pithy description of the late British cosmologist Fred Hoyle. It appeared to Hoyle as if a super-intellect had been 'monkeying' with the laws of physics. On the face of it, the universe does look as if it has been designed by an intelligent creator expressly for the purpose of spawning sentient beings. Like the porridge in the tale of Goldilocks and the three bears, the universe seems to be 'just right' for life, in many intriguing ways. (If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck … I wonder how goldilocks would respond if I were to take him to court to prove that he is not the author of this new book The Goldilocks Enigma? And he has the, well what ever it is, to proclaim that God did not create ….IF)

No scientific explanation for the universe can be deemed complete unless it accounts for this appearance of judicious design.
Until recently, 'the Goldilocks factor' was almost completely ignored by scientists.
Perhaps we have reached a fundamental impasse dictated by the limitations of the human intellect. (by all appearances God made everything But we Will figure out a way to prove that He did not. We have it almost in the bag they say ….IF)

those age-old questions of existence may evaporate away, exposed as nothing more than the befuddled musings of biological beings trapped in a mental straightjacket inherited from evolutionary happenstance (well may be goldilocks wishes so …IF)