Posted: Jul 26, 2010 3:47 pm
amused wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe#Top-down_cosmologyTop-down cosmology
Stephen Hawking, along with Thomas Hertog of CERN, proposed that the universe's initial conditions consisted of a superposition of many possible initial conditions, only a small fraction of which contributed to the conditions we see today.[22] According to their theory, it is inevitable that we find our universe's "fine-tuned" physical constants, as the current universe "selects" only those past histories that led to the present conditions. In this way, top-down cosmology provides an anthropic explanation for why we find ourselves in a universe that allows matter and life, without invoking the current existence of a multiverse.
There's a nicely self-contained mechanism by which a universe can design itself.
OK, then, you're obviously using the term "designed" in a different way than it usually is. Perhaps you should borrow Richard Dawkins term "designoid."