[ExI] BICEP2 and the Fermi paradox

[spike]

From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
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### A few years ago on this list I used this very argument against Nick Bostrom's anthropic argument in favor of us being in a simulation - although at that time inflation was more of a hypothesis rather than a theory slouching towards becoming a fact, as it is doing today. There are so may more young civilizations than older ones that no matter how popular ancestor simulations are, you are vanishingly unlikely to be in one of them…

 

It is all such mind-boggling stuff, oy.

 

>…Interestingly, I came across an article where Baptists hail BICEP and inflation as yet another proof of their god's existence. This flummoxed me somewhat, I must admit…Rafal

 

 

Rafal, what we are seeing here is evolution of a religion.  The successful modern religions are catching on to an important aspect for their survival: don’t fight science.  Rather, spin it to an advantage, regardless of which way science takes us.  Religions which fight science are always going to lose in the long run, because science has evidence on its side.

 

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