[Jaguar1942]

Not only is it not highly improbable, it is exactly opposite and highly probable.

You think that just one little bacteria sprung out of that ocean? there were billions of different combinations over hundreds and thousands and billions of years, the fact is that the correct combination occurring by accident was not only probable, it was impossible for it not to happen.

It was not 1 chance in a trillion, as some would like to say, it is more like a 1 chance in 1, in other words 100% chance that the correct combination that worked would be reached and therefore flourish. It was impossible for it not too.

[js1138]

placemarker

[bluejay]

there were billions of different combinations over hundreds and thousands and billions of years

First bacteria appeared ~200 million years after formation of Earth. You don't have hundreds of billions of years.

the fact is that the correct combination occurring by accident was not only probable, it was impossible for it not to happen.

Could you please refer me to a paper or a book on evolution that provides calculations based on hard facts - what is the probability of these outcome, how much time was available for random variations to be tested?