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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
The existence of life on this planet, never mind our particularly exceptional form of life, is the most miraculous event in the observable universe.
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This post is 99% drivel, but I want to just comment that even your basic assumption at the beginning is extremely debateable. There are plenty of miraculous events in the universe. I am not even sure that life's emergence is the most statistically unlikely. If you were going to attack this vector, you should stick to the notion that the physical laws and fundamental forces of the universe are finely attuned to such a degree that even minute deviations would make chemistry or even atomic nuclei impossible as we know them. Of course, this itself is defeated by the anthropic principle... We are here, so of course we are seeing conditions that would allow us to be here. Hell, even the existence of our moon is a somewhat miraculous and seemingly impossible reality.