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30 Post author: taw 20 August 2009 09:42PM

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Comment author: taw 25 August 2009 05:38:52AM 3 points [-]

I think my reasoning is valid even with anthropic principle. If life wasn't resilient, we should expect by anthropic principle to have no major disasters in the past, not to have survived major disasters.