And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against…

Richard Dawkins
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And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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