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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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Well... let's just that if (hypothetically) it were proven that humanity is the only intelligent life in the universe, then there would be an awful lot of people who believe in God saying "I told you so."... But I have to say that, IMHO, I wouldn't consider it good evidence one way or the other.