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Originally Posted by LesMts
The odds aren't astronomical. Given the size and nature of the universe it was a foregone conclusion that it would happen somewhere. So the probablity is, for all intents and purposes, 1 (i.e. a certainty).
That it would happen in any pre-selected location (such as a planet (or even a star system) chosen without insight) is astronomically improbable. But this doesn't make it any more amazing that it happened on Earth because these questions can only be asked and these things pondered wherever it did happen. It's the anthropic principle, more or less
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I agree with you, and probably didn't word myself clearly. The argument creationists come up with often goes 'there is so little chance of life developing exactly as it has here, with apparent design, that it MUST have been created'.
In a near infinite universe, over a massive period of time it is extremely likely that life will appear - the very fact that we are here to discuss it on an internet forum is evidence enough that we were one of those places where it did.
We were lucky though, not 'created'
