Where did the Universe come from? Part 3: Why the Big Bang was the most precisely planned event in all of history

In your kitchen cabinet, you've probably got a spray
bottle with an adjustable nozzle.  If you twist the nozzle
one way, it sprays a fine mist into the air.  You twist
the nozzle the other way, it squirts a jet of water
in a straight line.  You turn that nozzle to the exact
position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up
a spill, or whatever.
   If the universe had expanded a little faster, the
matter would have sprayed out into space like fine
mist from a water bottle - so fast that a gazillion
particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even
form a single star.
   If the universe had expanded just a little slower, the
material would have dribbled out like big drops of water,
then collapsed back where it came from by the force
of gravity.
   A little too fast, and you get a meaningless
spray of fine dust.  A little too slow, and the whole
universe collapses back into one big black hole.
   The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference
is.  To strike the perfect balance between too fast and
too slow, the force, something that physicists call
"the Dark Energy Term" had to be accurate to one part in
ten with 120 zeros.  
   If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would
look like this:
0.000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000001
   In their paper "Disturbing Implications of
a Cosmological Constant" two atheist scientists
from Stanford University stated that the existence of
this dark energy term would have required a miracle...
"An unknown agent" intervened in cosmic history
"for reasons of its own."
   Just for comparison, the best human engineering
example is the Gravity Wave Telescope, which was built with
a precision of 23 zeros.  The Designer, the 'external
agent' that caused our universe must possess an intellect,
knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions
of times greater than we humans have.
    Absolutely amazing.
    Now a person who doesn't believe in God has to find
some way to explain this.  One of the more common explanations seems to be "There was an infinite number of universes, so it was inevitable that things would have turned out right in at least one of them."
    The "infinite universes" theory is truly an amazing theory.  Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of universes, then absolutely everything is not only possible... It's actually happened!  
    It means that somewhere, in some dimension, there is
a universe where the India won the World T20 last year.   There's even a universe where Rajiv Gandhi is still the Prime Minister of India. There’s even a universe where Aamir Khan gets an Oscar for Lagaan.

Imagine the possibilities!  
    I might sound like I'm joking, but actually I'm dead
serious.  To believe an infinite number of universes
made life possible by random chance is to believe everything else I just said, too.  
    Some people believe in God with a capital G.
    And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C.

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