When people say that e.g. it’s such a miracle that life on Earth exists because the slightest change in its distance from the Sun or gravity or the lack of water would make it impossible for us to be around – forgetting that our existence presupposes all this. Or an argument for God that it cannot be accidental that we have all the preconditions on Earth to sustain ourselvea and that the way nature and our body works is a miracle – but it’s precisely why it can work and there are many planets where life couldn’t form for the lack of these components.
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The “fallacy of privileged exception” is at play here, folks. What’s that mean? It’s when some chump employs one exception to a rule as evidence that the rule itself is irrelevant or unworthy of adherence. As for the Chicken Supreme being real or not, using Earth’s life-sustaining elements as proof of divinity is ungrounded. What of the countless other planets where no life lurks? Similarly, proclaiming our existence as miraculous merely because Earth’s ambiance is just right is hogwash. We can only exist if those necessary elements coexist – simple as that.
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