[edsheppa]

you know in advance that your cumulative end result will be one in N x (52!).

I think it's actually (52!)^N - very much larger.

[Nebullis]

Besides, the origin of life is hardly suggested to be a stochastic process as deck shuffling. At each stage of evolutionary history, new environmental effects change the probility of a future event. Phase space has changed considerably over the last three billion years.

[PatrickHenry]

I think it's actually (52!)^N - very much larger.

I think you're right. An even bigger miracle. Yet one you can perform in the comfort of your own home with a deck of cards. But I am discomforted. By all the rules of the ID gang, this ought to be impossible.

[VadeRetro]

I think it's actually (52!)^N - very much larger.

Anticipated you here, starting where it says, "You're an evo materialist atheist and who cares what you think?"