Sep 2, 2010
That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions — the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings.
This is a big breakdown of reason, as far as I’m concerned. This is like saying a top-of-the-line car designed to handle the narrow lanes and hairpin turns of mountainous terrain is less impressive because the same company also manufactures other vehicles suited for other driving conditions.
The existence of other planets, other suns, other galaxies - shoot, other universes - doesn’t mean our planet is any less elegantly and carefully designed for humans.
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