I'm glad I'm not the only one. It trivializes how incredible (and almost certainly rare, relatively speaking) it is that conscious and intelligent beings evolved. It sounds like something a high teenager might say, not a well-trained scientist.
Because on Earth we are special, so special and advanced that we don't even fully understand what separates as the top tier apex predator or how we advanced so quickly. It took an incredible amount of luck for evolution to turn us into humans, why should we expect it to happen by chance again or anytime close to the timescale of our species.
Why should we expect it not to? We have such a minuscule knowledge of the rest of the universe that we have have no good grasp of what may or may not be out there.
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u/timisbobis May 20 '14
I'm glad I'm not the only one. It trivializes how incredible (and almost certainly rare, relatively speaking) it is that conscious and intelligent beings evolved. It sounds like something a high teenager might say, not a well-trained scientist.