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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
How many googolplexes of googolplexes of opportunities did the chains have to form to establish life? Long shot is not a problem when the opportunities are like this. We can't say that it's 100% because it happened, any more than we can say a coin flip was 100% to be heads after we see the result was heads, can we?
You're right, thanks. So what it does give us is a floor, because we can confidently say that its > 0% We also know its < 100% because it doesn't happen all the time. Our answer lies somewhere in the middle, most likely very near the 0% end of the spectrum
But establishing bounds I guess is the first step.