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> there is no rational basis for believing it to be true. Denying that humans and their blue little planet are in any way special is such a rational basis.
by GeoAtreides 5y ago
> there is no rational basis for believing it to be true.
Denying that humans and their blue little planet are in any way special is such a rational basis.
- pfdietz 5y agoIf origin of life is uncommon, then any place it does arise will necessarily be special. You are simply asserting, as an axiom, that life cannot be uncommon. The core of your erroneous thinking is that you have not taken into account observer selection bias. https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-selection-effects.pdf https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/W6-Observer-sele... Your sort of reasoning also led people to think in the 1700s that all the other planets in our solar system had intelligent life on them.