Amazon doesn't list this book yet, but the search engine pulled up Paul Davies title, despite my not having plugged his name into the search.
Cosmic coincidences
review by John Gribbin
Sunday Times
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies... First, he leads the reader gently by the hand through the basics of what we are sure we understand about space, time and the universe. Then, he leaps off into more speculative territory to ponder why the universe we live in is just right for life, and whether there may be other universes out there in other dimensions of space (and possibly time)... Even the term "Goldilocks world", from which Davies takes his title, is an old one used by astronomers in a variety of ways when discussing why the earth, or the universe, is, like baby bear's porridge in the story, "just right" for us... Why should it be worth entertaining such a possibility? Because, in the words of the cosmologist Fred Hoyle, our universe seems to be "a put-up job", in which many physical features of the universe and even of the laws of physics themselves seem to be fine-tuned to allow our existence... But at the end of his book comes the ultimate cop-out. Having posed the question "How come existence?", Davies concludes that "all of the approaches I have discussed are likely to prove unsatisfactory. In fact, in reviewing them they all seem to me to be either ridiculous or hopelessly inadequate". He dismisses the idea of a unique universe which arose by chance, of "a stupendous number" of parallel universes, of God, and of a self-explaining universe "entailing backward causation and teleology".