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Originally Posted by Thee Alex
we should be amazed by this alone (the odds against it being rather astronomical)
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The odds aren't astronomical. Given the size and nature of the universe it was a foregone conclusion that it would happen somewhere. So the probablity is, for all intents and purposes, 1 (i.e. a certainty).
That it would happen in any
pre-selected location (such as a planet (or even a star system) chosen without insight) is astronomically improbable. But this doesn't make it any more amazing that it happened on Earth because these questions can only be asked and these things pondered wherever it did happen. It's the anthropic principle, more or less