It's not a leap of faith in my case, it's just one feeble human with a very limited cognitive ability trying to make sense of why he exists. We all do it one way or another, some use drugs, some use alcohol, some end up in therapy, others join new age cults, sects and even mainstream religion, etc. Even the likes of Hitchens in his own way was on that same journey by eliminating the superstitions and dogma of religion. His conclusion might have been that we end up as nothingness, but at least he came to that conclusion with style and elegance.
I don't care if some form of God, not the God of religion, because we know that one is a complete human construct, does not exist. I don't care if when I die there is absolutely nothing. What I do care about is trying in my own way to understand why I exist.
That said I do not accept this infinity of multiverse where one has to be not too hot, not too cold, but just right for Goldilocks. This smacks of the same junk religion brings up when they make their claims. It's absolute nonsense and has no claims on why I exist.
And I do not conclude that I am here by accident, well not me precisely, but sentient beings and a universe with habitable zones, and natural laws that work precisely that have limits. I think it naive in the extreme to imagine that all this happened just because it did. That is the greatest act of faith, to imagine nothing doing all this because this was the lucky universe amongst infinite universes.
