re: #36 b_sharp

He believes there wasn’t enough time for evolution to go from molecule to man.

I’m not sure he understands that the universe is older than the Earth and that there was plenty of time in the solar system’s 4.5 billion years.

And of course if there is a time problem, it’s not with the biological, but rather with the chemical evolution (where gradualism and PE are inapplicable). It is because of the problems with the abiogenesis that Koonin posited in his book that the multiverse hypothesis might be necessary. (His idea has been criticized of course, but he’s a mainstream and respected scientist.)

Even if that were so, the multiverse hypothesis has an independent origin in the inflationary Big Bang theory. It was not posited because of any problems with how life arose.