Gould compared the claim that the universe is fine-tuned for the benefit of our kind of life to saying that sausages were made long and narrow so that they could fit into modern hotdog buns, or saying that ships had been invented to house barnacles.
Gould prirovnával tvrdenie, že vesmír je jemne vyladený pre našu formu života k tvrdeniu, že salámy boli vyrobené dlhé a úzke preto, aby pasovali do moderných hot-dogov alebo k tvrdeniu, že lode boli vytvorené ako bydlisko pre pijavice.