On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote: > That seems to water down the Principle to complete irrelevance, doesn't > it?
Well, the notion that life is very unlikely, but happened on earth through sheer chance, does not require that earth is "special" in any fundamental physical sense. > If it says anything, it would have to be intense a priori suspicion > of any claim that were are a one in 10^100 event. A posteriori, what would be a reasonable estimate of that probability, given that we observe no evidence of intelligent life in the universe besides ourselves? Cheers, Chris Auld Department of Economics University of Calgary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
