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Old 03-06-2006, 08:25 AM   #56 (permalink)
asaris
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So, macmanmike, do you have any experimental evidence indicating the existence of multiple universes? Or the anthropic principle? Or any argument for these things, rather than just asserting them? So who is relying on belief here? I'll just note that the site that you cite to describes the anthropic principle as "A controversial cosmological principle".

Moreover, that there are 10 billion planets means nothing in itself unless we know the probability of life emerging. If this probability is one in a trillion, life emerging is pretty damn lucky.
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