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Originally Posted by dreadgeek
At any rate, one thing that Hawking states is that the discovery of extra-solar planets shows that our conceit that Earth--or even our solar system--is somehow special and a sign that there's a creator is misplaced. It's very true. Something one hears quite a bit is that *because* the Earth is in the habitable zone of our local star it shows that a divine being *must* have created the planet since what odds are there that a planet would be in the particular orbit we are in.
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It's the ultimate arrogance of mankind to think that out of all that stuff out there, we're the only ones and we're somehow special. In the big picture, our dinky little solar system isn't even anything special.