What are the odds of your existence?

What are the odds of your existence?

The probability of you existing at all comes out to 1 in 102,685,000 — yes, that’s a 10 followed by 2,685,000 zeroes! Binazir concludes that the odds of you being alive are basically zero.

What are the odds of life forming?

It could be that once conditions are favorable, life has a 10% chance of appearing in any given hundred million years. Or 90%. Or 1%.

Are you more likely to be born or win the lottery?

The probability of winning the lottery is in the order of 10E-7 per ticket. The probability that you personally were born, rather than a genetically different person with the same name, is probably in the order of 10E-8, depending on your father’s sperm count.

What has odds of 1 in a million?

Risks of Death

Event Deaths Yearly Odds
Throw heads 20 times in a row 1 in 1 million
Death in childbirth 391 1 in 700,000
Odds of a Royal Flush, 5 card stud 1 in 650,000
Dying while riding a bicycle. 740 1 in 372,000

What is the probability of a new planet forming randomly?

The probability of it forming randomly, in sequential trials, is approximately 1 in 10 40, which is much more likely than the 1 in 10 390 claim creationists often cite. Though, to be fair, 10 40 is still a very large number.

Is there a probability argument against evolution?

Note that there is no comparable opposition movement to quantum physics, organic chemistry, cetacean biology or any of a host of other scientific theories. Both traditional creationists and intelligent design writers have invoked probability arguments in their criticisms of evolution.

Is it possible for life to be created by random chance?

If this were the theory of abiogeneisis, and if it relied entirely on random chance, then yes, it would be impossible for life to form in this way. However, this is not the case. Abiogenesis was a long process with many small incremental steps, all governed by the non-random forces of Natural Selection and chemistry.

What is the probability of getting all twelve in order?

So the answer for getting all twelve in order is 1 in (12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1) or 1 in 479,001,600. If you believe there is proof of a world wide flood (see creationscience.com) and also that when the Bible mentions the time of Peleg.

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