“Humankind’s existentially lucky numbers”

You don’t have to be a theist to notice the strikingly precise numbers that make our existence possible.  This author, for example, supplies no indications that he’s a believer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/humankinds-existentially-lucky-numbers.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fraw-data&contentCollection=science&action=click&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article

But the numbers are indeed remarkable.

And, unless one simply wants to throw one’s hands up in resignation and remain incurious, they demand to be explained.

Posted from Erfurt, Germany