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See here for a discussion of supporting evidence:
cosmological principle
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Yes, I probably will want to read up on it somewhat.
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Define what you mean by "special,"...
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Unusual, distinctive, extraordinary, or unique.
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...then present evidence that this is a "special" location.
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I'm not making a claim that we
are special here, merely pointing out that the assumption that we are entirely typical seems unfounded since we have severely limited information on what conditions are like elsewhere in the universe. We might procede on the assumption that we are typical, but we should remember that at this point this is a guess, not a fact, and until we can spread out to other areas of our galaxy we really don't know what the typical conditions in the galaxy are, let alone the universe.
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What is your definition of "proven scientific truth"?
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Actually I would say there's no such thing as proven scientific truth, and so no one should ever treat a scientific theory or supposed fact as proven absolute truth.
Being only human we have a tendency to take a ball and run with it when we sometimes shouldn't. We should instead always have room in our theories to challenge them and be ready to revise them when better information becomes available.