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To: Ahban
If you will look at the link I have provided, you will see that most or all of the 118 parameters apply to ANY kind of advanced life arising. Any carbon based life as we know it. Big brained dinos, whatever. The odds against ANY advanced life as we know it, not just humans, seems enormous.

The odds against any specific thing arising from a combinatorially complex system for producing things are enormous. But the odds of producing SOME complex thing are about unity. Said thing may then look back and say, "whoa, what a miracle I am for having arising where so many other things might have arisen instead--I must be a bonefide miracle!"

However, those of us who are literate in statistics need not take this miracle seriously. Something had to arise, and it happened to be us. Good luck for us, but humdrum business for the rest of the universe looking on.

356 posted on 07/18/2002 2:37:23 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
"There are none so blind as them who will not see".
362 posted on 07/18/2002 3:14:00 PM PDT by Ahban
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