Forget a complex system like life. Take a jar full of 20 red marbles and 20 blue marbles and empty it on the floor. What are the odds that all the blue marbles end up on one side of the floor and the reds on the other ? In real life terms it will take an astronomical amount of time for it to happen. In other words the odds are zero.
Exactly right. I read something recently (possibly from Nicholas Nassim Taleb) which discussed the mathematics of things which take “an astronomical amount of time”. From the standpoint of pure math, it truly is seen as no longer “a low probability” it is legitimately seen as “impossible”.
I consider the basic concept of Origin of Life and the Theory of Evolution to be literally “impossible”.
>>Forget a complex system like life. Take a jar full of 20 red marbles and 20 blue marbles and empty it on the floor. What are the odds that all the blue marbles end up on one side of the floor and the reds on the other ? In real life terms it will take an astronomical amount of time for it to happen. In other words the odds are zero.
Atoms self assemble due to atomic field forces. Molecules self assemble due to electron valence fields. Proteins self-assemble due to micro resonant EMF fields (optical biophysics). If there is a God involved, he is lawful force via field interaction.