No, because our world hasn’t had as many “lucky coincidences” as Aerhien’s. It seems to me that we are not seeing more “lucky coincidences” than a typical evolved intelligent species would see, looking back on the history of its world.
I think the most we can say is that there hasn’t been a disaster in our history that would have required great luck to stop. Our world has nothing like the dust; our destruction is not nearly that intrinsically assured. So whatever coincidence saved us, anthropomorphically, would not look like an Act of Great Luck; it would look like the sort of thing that you could convince yourself in retrospect must have been more probable than it seemed at the time. Long, drawn-out sequences of individually credible chances.
The Fermi paradox says we are exceptionally lucky. But it could influence your original argument, too. I’m still not sure which way the math works out.
Wait, doesn’t the same argument prove the existence of a God in our world that keeps rescuing life from disaster?
No, because our world hasn’t had as many “lucky coincidences” as Aerhien’s. It seems to me that we are not seeing more “lucky coincidences” than a typical evolved intelligent species would see, looking back on the history of its world.
I think the most we can say is that there hasn’t been a disaster in our history that would have required great luck to stop. Our world has nothing like the dust; our destruction is not nearly that intrinsically assured. So whatever coincidence saved us, anthropomorphically, would not look like an Act of Great Luck; it would look like the sort of thing that you could convince yourself in retrospect must have been more probable than it seemed at the time. Long, drawn-out sequences of individually credible chances.
The Fermi paradox says we are exceptionally lucky. But it could influence your original argument, too. I’m still not sure which way the math works out.