[Sabatier]

"If every elementary particle in the observed universe (about 1080) were cranking out mutation events at the cosmic speed limit (about 1045 times per second) for a billion times the estimated age of the universe, they still could not produce the genes for a working flagellum."

Now that's an interesting statement.

[Physicist]

It's supposed to be 10⁸⁰ and 10⁴⁵. It's a completely spurious and embarrassingly wrong argument, of course, and especially suspicious since it's supposed to be coming from an expert on statistics.

[orionblamblam]

> Now that's an interesting statement.

Please note that "interesting" does not equate to "factually accurate."

[MamaTexan]

Now that's an interesting statement.

I've always wondered what mathematical odds were of EVERYTHING in nature happening *just so* to create all the different kinds of life on the Earth.

And the statistics given from the article are for ONE part of a single organism!