MIG29pilot wrote:Perfectly true, we as yet have no idea whether there are other earths out there. The important thing about our little sphere is that there must be a thousand conditions that could doom human life if not just right--the thickness of the atmosphere, the temperature, the distance from the sun--tiny changes in any and more could erase life, and yet here I am.
There's plenty to say on this topic, but I think the above is very important.
In my opinion our sphere, and you, and me, are completely unimportant and insignificant. We're all unique little snowflakes, but that doesn't make us important. The importance you see is the one you place on yourself and our earth. The view is highly ego- and geo-centric. It's a fundamental trait of Abrahamic religions as far as I can see, and I think it's a damaging and misleading basic point of view (no offense meant in any of this).
Again, I have to work, but it's pretty easy to explain just why the above view of us being important has absolutely no bearing on the probability of a god.
Also, as far as the discussion went for the first 4-5 pages, on-topic, I agree with JWocky I think. If I remember correctly he made some very good points.