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Originally Posted by Warren Platts
I think that people who are appalled by the very idea that humans are a true one-off tend to be committed atheists; because if it were the case that humans are the only intelligent species would not that fact tend to favor theism over a materialistic naturalism? (Although, of course, if we were the only intelligent species, that would not be logically inconsistent with materialism.)
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Personally I'd find humans being the only intelligent life to be strong evidence in favor of atheism. It doesn't seem plausible to create a universe of umpteen quadrillions of stars and planets and only populate one of them.