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To: aruanan
If you calculate the odds that we have arrived where we have by chance, you'll arrive at number that virtually guarantees its impossibility. But let's assume it happened anyway. To find, then, what the odds are that this has happened twice, you have to multiply the first set of odds by itself and so on for each different occurrence you posit. So the likelihood, as likelihood is actually figured in real science, militates against anything like we've seen on this planet ever happening again, much less in such a way that results in a "universe that is teeming with life."

Problem is, the universe looks darned big, infinite almost.

Roll a trillion dice, infinite number of times, and the odds of them coming up all 6's an infinite number of times is 100%.

172 posted on 01/23/2011 8:05:28 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, than Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz

It’s large, but bounded.


175 posted on 01/23/2011 8:17:48 PM PST by BenKenobi
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