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Not in the requisite sense. Suppose that our existence depended on a purely random roll of a six-sided die coming up as 1. If the roll had come up anything else
by pekk 14y ago
Not in the requisite sense. Suppose that our existence depended on a purely random roll of a six-sided die coming up as 1. If the roll had come up anything else, we would not be here to reflect on it. But if it did come up as 1, that does not mean a mystical force guaranteed that it came up as 1.
Our existence (whether likely or not) does not constitute evidence that our existence was guaranteed or predetermined. Low-probability events happen sometimes, their actually having happened once does not make them high-probability.
- kpierre 14y agoit seems like you, and the top comment are interpreting this news story as some attack on atheism? i don't see how that's even related. is that your preemptive strike against non-atheistic interpretation?
- calinet6 14y agoAbsolutely not. My intention was to broaden the point by introducing the mind-blowing anthropic principle and a new perspective on the conditions leading to life, nothing more.
- username3 14y agoSuppose that our existence depended on a purely random roll of a six-sided die coming up as 1 on the first hundred rolls. It won't happen.