re: 'the Anthropic Universe' = Intelligent Design?
Isn't it kind of arrogant, the anthropic universe?
The universe could have had other constants and have produced something totally different, unsuitable to atoms.
It probably is doing that in other Universes! Perhaps an unimaginable number of universes are beginning and ending and we can't know this.
It's a bit like darwinism: there are a huge number of possibilities but only one gets it right (for us) and survives to become what it is today.
Time and space are so hard for humans to understand, as well in biology as in cosmology.