Nehaveigur

Creation is so much more complex than it needs to be. The universe doesn’t just appear to be fine-tuned to support life but fine-tuned to maximize possibilities. This is the Anthropic Principle, but even more so.

Here is Annie Dillard’s in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek:

That there are so many details seems to be the most important and visible fact about the creation […] even on the perfectly ordinary and clearly visible level, creation carries on with an intricacy unfathomable and apparently uncalled for. The lone ping into being of the first hydrogen atom ex nihilo was so unthinkable, violently radical, that surely it ought to have been enough, more than enough. But look what happens. You open the door and all heaven and hell breaks loose […] Evolution, of course is the vehicle of intricacy […] There is no one standing over evolution with a blue pencil to say “Now that one, there, is absolutely ridiculous, and I won’t have it.” […] Why so many forms? Why not just that one hydrogen atom? The creator goes off on one wild, specific tangent after another, on millions simultaneously, with an exuberance that would seem to be unwarranted, and with an abandoned energy sprung from an unfathomable font. What is going on here?