[CarrotAndStick]

...probabilities of it occurring are basically impossible.

What is "impossible" in a day isn't necessarily impossible in a span of multiple billion years. Those one-in-a-million chances can get very favourable outcomes when you give it time in the range of billions of years.

[Hendrix]

What is "impossible" in a day isn't necessarily impossible in a span of multiple billion years. Those one-in-a-million chances can get very favourable outcomes when you give it time in the range of billions of years.

I agree with that, and that is why I said it was a good point that a lot of things can happen in a billion years, but I still think evolution relies on chance that is probably impossible to occur, regardless of the time frame.