My own view is that although we do not yet know the fundamental physical laws, when and if we find them the possibility of life in a universe governed by those laws will be written into them. The existence of life in the universe is not a selective principle acting upon the laws of nature; rather it is a consequence of them.

Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time, Part Four, Chapter 1 (pp. 359-360), Simon & Schuster. 1985