Accidental Universe; Also, I Might Have Gone to a Less-Than-Ivy League School

Last week HERE I wrote "Barely a week goes by without yet another report coming out that oh by the way, the Universe is infinitely larger than we thought it was 5 minutes ago.  This tells me there is no Biblical God that we like to dream about...", and thanks to David Brooks Sidney Awards I read THIS ESSAY on the "accidental universe":

The explanation is similar to the explanation of why we happen to live on a planet that has so many nice things for our comfortable existence: oxygen, water, a temperature between the freezing and boiling points of water, and so on. Is this happy coincidence just good luck, or an act of Providence, or what? No, it is simply that we could not live on planets without such properties...The multiverse offers an explanation to the fine-tuning conundrum that does not require the presence of a Designer. As Steven Weinberg says: “Over many centuries science has weakened the hold of religion, not by disproving the existence of God but by invalidating arguments for God based on what we observe in the natural world. The multiverse idea offers an explanation of why we find ourselves in a universe favorable to life that does not rely on the benevolence of a creator, and so if correct will leave still less support for religion.”

One line I don't like is when the author immediately contradicts himself in the next paragraph:

Our universe is what it is because we are here.

Based on what the author's main thesis is, I would think the opposite to be his point: we are here because our universe is what it is.  A zillion things needed to happen in a perfect order for us to be here, and they all happened to occur in what would become our own universe, unlike all the countless others in which we don't exist.

We'll forgive him - after all, he didn't attend the Harvard on the Appomattox, did he?