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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Survivorship bias. But also just being wrong. Our orbit around the sun takes us much closer and further from the sun, a massive margin, it doesn’t affect temperature though because at the scale of the solar system it doesn’t make much of a difference.
Edit: fixed phrasing that made my statement seem much more extreme than it is.
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