Hi Cepheidstar

I read your post and had been working through similar thoughts and I'm sure people won't find your post offensive. You were interested what others made of the show...

I thought it was a fascinating show and agree the Anthropic Principle was floating around unmentioned in the background (it would probably rate a show of it's own).

I've read some compelling logical arguments that the existence of a multiverse would account for the constants being as they are. My favorite one uses the analogy of waking up in a hotel of many different rooms; perhaps someone else remembers exactly how it goes. In any case I'll try to find a link later.

Personally I think the term Intelligent Design is bogus and wish people who use it would just be straight up and talk about God. Even if an individual believed there was an intelligent designer who was perhaps an alien or something else, said alien would surely qualify as God-like!

I hope we do one day learn that there is an underlying theory of everything that explains all the constants in our universe. But even so, I think there is still room for the idea of God. Let's say we discover a theory of everything. We discover it originated in the Big Bang. Imagine we discover our Big Bang is one of many in the multiverse. Who created the multiverse? And on it goes.

What does bug me are those people who choose to attack science and fail to see that science leaves room for God. If there is a God, didn't He create science too? (Or at least those truths the scientific method reveals.)

I choose not to deny the possibility of God, even though I haven't got the faintest idea what God would be like, and don't prescrible to any of mans ideas of what God would be like. I simply feel a sense of wonder at the universe. If it was good enough for Einstein it's good enough for me:

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
A. Einstein