Seems sensible. That is of course why the telescope and Galileo’s observations were so important, as they revealed unexpected similarities between the earth and the heavens (other planets having moons and not being perfect spheres).
Paul Graham (there’s a always a reason to quote him) makes the claim that much of intellectual history is just about discarding the notion that humans are special, in some kind of teleological sense. Earth is a planet among planets, homo sapiens a species among species. Both have remarkable and unique properties, but only because the universe just so happned to be that way. http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html
Seems sensible. That is of course why the telescope and Galileo’s observations were so important, as they revealed unexpected similarities between the earth and the heavens (other planets having moons and not being perfect spheres).
Paul Graham (there’s a always a reason to quote him) makes the claim that much of intellectual history is just about discarding the notion that humans are special, in some kind of teleological sense. Earth is a planet among planets, homo sapiens a species among species. Both have remarkable and unique properties, but only because the universe just so happned to be that way. http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html