[Jeff Gordon]

How long do you suppose it would take before they become this?

When you have millions or years, who cares how long it would take. It will get done.

[AndrewC]

When you have millions or years, who cares how long it would take. It will get done.

Oh yeah, the Liberal philosophy, just keep printing money. Millions of years is not enough. Billions of years is not enough. Trillions of years is not enough. Quadrillions of years is not enough. Quintillions of years is not enough. Sextillions of years is not enough. Septillions of years is not enough, even if you are British.

Shuffle a deck of cards fairly. Now check to see if the deck is in order with aces to kings for each suit and the suits in club, diamonds, hearts and spades sequence. Keep shuffling and checking until the deck is in the described order. There are

52 ! = 8.06581752 × 10⁶⁷

sequences. There have been

60 * 60 * 24 * 365.25 * 20 000 000 000 * 10e15 = 6.31152 × 10³³

femtoseconds(approximately and liberally so) since the big bang. If you shuffled the deck and were able to check it every femtosecond since the beginning of the universe, you'll still be a fairly unlikely to have succeeded in the shuffle. Unless you are pretty lucky. Kinda like Darwin is said to be.

P.S. Even if we used Planck Time the chore would involve on the order of 20,000 ages of the universe in the calculation.

60 * 60 * 24 * 365.25 * 20 000 000 000 * 5.4 * 10e44 = 3.4082208 × 10⁶³