Ellis: "There's a great deal of variation in human existence, perhaps even too much to take such a risk"

Very true. If it's to be completely random, then it's a statistical probably that we'll be born into an environment that's distinctly less comfortable, rather more challenging to the skills of survival, and offers considerably less opportunity for the kind of armchair philosophising that we tend to indulge in here.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler