[MrB]

At what point does “chance” cease to be plausible?

1/100? 10E-1000? How about, given the number of stars in our galaxy divided by all the requirements for technological life, there should be .01 “earths” in our galaxy?

Could a person’s fingerprints form by chance at a crime scene? After all, it’s just a certain configuration of chemicals!

[CarrotAndStick]

Umm, consider this: The universe has infinite volume. By infinite, I don’t mean ‘very large’. Rather, infinite as in there can never be a physical bounding region for the universe. Say there is a brick wall at the end of the universe. Even then, either more bricks should lie beyond the brick wall, or more space, again. Endlessly.

When infinite possibilities exist, no matter how absurd 10e10000 may sound, the existence of the number of combinations required to mathematically satisfy that probability can’t be denied.

[labette]

Best tagline nomination!