> ... Because of these severe
> limitations, it is obvious that we actually do NOT live in the best of all
> possible universes...
perhaps we live in an unfortunate place within the best of all possible
universes. what if we lived in a globular cluster, so that the nearest stars
were only a few light days away, and the home planet had a low gravity
field? we could have already colonized the cluster. as it is, we are way
out here on a high gravity planet where our nearest stellar neighbors are
not promising...