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Originally Posted by Ian E Coleman
When you factor in the ideal location of our planet in relation to other bodies in our solar system, the size of the planet, and the atmosphere - along with the briefness of our own existence and the unlikely hood that we would have come to be in the first place - I think we suffer from looking at the universe from the point of view of lottery winners. It's only because we do exist, that existence seems so common.
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This is a common train of thought. "Everything had to be perfect for us to exist, and here we are! We must be special." Well, no. If we didn't exist, we wouldn't be sitting here thinking about all the conditions necessary for us to exist. You see?