2008-07-17, 03:11 PM
Lylac Wrote:What perfectness of our planet? Just because our telescopes cannot detect earth-like planets at the moment doesn't necessarily mean we're alone in some big cosmic void. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
This can be called as the situation of black swans. For a long time, Europeans believed that all swans were white. And that notion only held true as long as their discovered world contained only white swans. But then Australia was discovered and black swans were discovered. So the perceptions of the world and what swans were had to change.
This can be represented as any event that happens out of the box of expectations. We find casuality in all events based on past experience. But the biggest events cannot be predicted because they just never happened before, such as 9/11.
What I want to say is that as long as we don't find any proof of anything else existing we can say that we are the only thing alive in this universe. So the other living creatures that you say that may exist, have the right to say that too.