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Originally Posted by Textcritic
That is probably a useful description of where I am. Although the chaotic operation of the universe, its sheer size and the infinitesimal favourability of life make me dubious. For a while I was an open-theist: of the opinion that god is neither all knowing nor all-powerful, and that she/he is much more like humans than not. It actually provided for me a much more favourable view of a god who cares deeply, but is unable to solve all of our problems, and from time to time messes them up through efforts to change things.
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The Drake Equation is interesting when thinking about the infinitesimal probability of life. With current findings of the number of habitable planets that could evolve human like life increasing rapidly
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
Now the usefulness of this is questionable as the rare earth hypothesis uses conservative values leading to a number less than one. But a more favourable set of criteria set the number at 15,000,000 species.
So we actually don’t know with certainty if the likelihood of intelligent life is rare on a universe level scale.