You know, us humans, we have haven't been around very long - not in the big scheme of things. According to the Bible, we've only been around 6000 years. But the scientific estimates put us around 6 million years. Now compare that to the vast stretch of time before us - 4 billion years of life. And even before that - traditional estimates are that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. But the new data from the JWST pushes that estimate even further back. The current estimate is that the universe is 26.7 billion years old. That means humanity has only existed for 0.02% of the history of the universe. Less than 1 out of 4000 slices of time!
But it only gets worse! There is this thing called the Fermi paradox - why can't we find evidence for aliens, despite there being so many planets? We've been scanning the skies for 60 years, searching for any unusual signals. But we can't find anything. The universe seems barren of life.
According to Sarah Rugheimer at Harvard Horizons Symposium, "We expect 40 billion earth-like planets in our galaxy alone." Given that there are at least 200 billion galaxies, this means that there should be 8 trillion earth-like planets! Out of all 8 trillion, there is only evidence of 1 planet with life.
1 / 4450 slices of time; 1 / 8 trillion slices of space. If we combine this together, humanity has only existed for 1 / 35,000,000,000,000 slices of space-time. This is 0.00000000003% of space-time. In Poker, the best hand is a royal flush. It happens in 1 / 650,000 hands. If you drew a royal flush, would you say that poker was finely tuned to give you a royal flush? No, you would say you got lucky. To win the lottery, it takes a 1 / 176,000,000 chance. If you won the lottery, would you say that the system was finely tuned for you to win? No, you would say that you got lucky. Well, when we look across the universe and see humanity occupy 1 / 35 quadrillionths of this space-time, why would you say that it was all finely tuned for humanity? Of course you wouldn't. You would say - we got lucky.
