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In the 1970s a British astronomer, Sir Frederick Hoyle, calculated the probability of spontaneous generation of a single celled organism. He determined that the probability of generating the proteins necessary to form a single celled organism was one chance in 10^40,000. To put this in perspective, if an event has the probability of one chance in 10⁵⁰ it is considered a mathematical impossibility.

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In the 1970s a British astronomer, Sir Frederick Hoyle, calculated the probability of spontaneous generation of a single celled organism. He determined that the probability of generating the proteins necessary to form a single celled organism was one chance in 10^40,000. To put this in perspective, if an event has the probability of one chance in 10⁵⁰ it is considered a mathematical impossibility.

Most people don't fully appreciate the magnitude of those numbers.

For example, the number of seconds since the big bang is roughly 10¹³. The upper bound on the number of Baryons (particles that make up atoms - electrons, protons, neutrons) in the universe has been estimated at around 10⁹⁰.

Compared to 10^40,000 those numbers are puny!