clipped from: physicsworld.com   
The emerging paradigm for explaining the special properties of our universe is, in a sense, an attempt to live up to the standard set by Darwinian evolution: to provide a natural (as opposed to supernatural) non-accidental explanation for the apparently very unlikely specialness of the universe and its laws. Surprisingly, it involves the same two central principles: an enormous landscape of possibilities and random mutation. It even involves a mechanism similar to DNA.