Key Points This chapter contains more of the author’s personal opinions than the earlier chapters. In some respects, such as its strange fitness for life, the universe appears designed. Some people suggest that it is. Invoking a supernatural designer, however, opens up its own as-yet-unsolved philosophical issues about the designer’s nature, origin, uniqueness, necessity, and relationship to time. It is important to distinguish between design in the laws of physics and design in objects or in systems
