Neither is "god did it".
> It could be that it is extremely difficult to start life. It might be that it is so difficult to start a life that it has happened only once among all the planets... Let us consider, just as a conjecture, that the chance of life starting when we have got suitable physical conditions is 10^-100. I don't have any logical reason for proposing this figure, I just want you to consider it as a possibility. Under those conditions ... it is almost certain that life would not have started. And I feel that under those conditions it will be necessary to assume the existence...
This from the Kragh (1990), Dirac: A Scientific Biography. When the Archive will make books in the Library available again, it's there; otherwise, the paragraph is copied on Wikipedia.
Doesn't sounds like much of an argument to me.
What it does sound like is someone who has already accepted a conclusion and is grasping for some way, any way to justify it.
"Hypoteses non fingo" ( ~~ Isaac Newton)
...especially true of lacking, non-analytical speech.
