Original sentence: Religious reasons for doubting the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life, resemble some forms of the Rare Earth Hypothesis.The argument here would be a teleological form of the strong anthropic principle: the universe was designed for the express purpose of creating human (and only human) intelligence
Edited sentence: Nevertheless, few religious thinkers would treat the issue as dogmatically certain.The argument here would be an essentially teleological one, related to the teleological form of the strong anthropic principle, suggesting that the universe was precisely designed for the express purpose of creating human (and only human) intelligence.To the extent that there might be religious reasons for doubting the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life, they might resemble some forms of the Rare Earth Hypothesis discussed earlier