There, that got your attention.
It is often said, as an argument against the existence of any cosmic importance for mankind, that we are no more than a handful of microbes living in a tiny habitable region of a huge ball of rock we call Earth, in a vast solar system orbiting a Sun many times larger than the earth, just one of 100 billion such stars in a galaxy that is just one of 100 billion galaxies in an observable universe estimated to be somewhere between 100-150 billion light years in diameter.
Tiny pinpoints of matter in a vast gulf of empty space. How could we be of any signifigance in the cosmic scheme of things? Or so the oft-quoted argument goes.
But this way of measuring our signifigance is based on the idea that size is important, rather than, say, complexity.
Why should we consider ourselves cosmically insignifigant simply because we are small compared with the scale of the universe?
2006-09-29
10:22:59
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