Athiests....What are the odds that our entire existence is the result of a series of chance occurrences?

Question

Since you've done the math, I'd like to know.

Answer 1

Say for instance that the existence of intelligent life in this universe is 10^5000 to 1. OK fine. But you can no more prove that there aren't 10^20000 other universes than I can prove that there isn't a god.

Answer 2

Science doesn't make odds. We look at evidence. We don't know that our entire existence is the result of a series of chance occurrences. In fact, compared to the knowledge that we will gain in the next hundred years we know very little at this point. But we're working on it. And we quit looking in the bible for answers long ago.

Answer 3

Along with other evolutionary scientists, the late, great Carl Sagan estimated the chance of our existence by randon chance is one in 10 to the 2 billionth power.

That is a figure with a 1 and 2 billion zeros after it.

According to Borel's Law, events with a chance of 1 in 10 to the 50th power never occur.
How much less then is the chance of 1 in 10 to the 2,000,000,000 power?

In short, Borel's Law states that evolution cannot occur.

Answer 4

Of course, I haven't done the math but I trust the integrity of those who have. And considering the mind-boggling scope of the universe (planets numbering in the billions of billions), I imagine the odds are probably quite favorable.
And I hope you're not seriously suggesting that there's a greater mathematical likelihood of an invisible man in the sky who magically wished the universe into being out of nothingness.

Seahawks fan since 1988.

Answer 5

Much better than the odds that an invisible being did it. Show you the math? It's not about math. I don't have to understand the science of it to know that the earth and other planets in our solar system revolve around the sun (a fact the bible kind of missed out on, by the way). I don't have to understand why antiobitics will kill an infection, nor do you, but I'll bet you don't ask your doctor for the math involved in developing a medicine that will cure you, do you?

Answer 6

Zero, and I don't know of any atheist who says it is just a result of chance occurrence. Most of the events that led to our existence were the inevitable results of physical forces and natural law.

As to the odds that all that led to our existence: 1:1

Answer 7

Its not all chance occurrences and what chance is involved is still infinitely more likely then some magic being that can't explain its own creation wishing everything else into existence.

Answer 8

Probability is 1. Odds are 1:1. Do you have any evidence to the contrary? Even if there was a God, could you not say that it was a chance occurrence that there was a God.

Answer 9

with the theory of inifinite universe, the chances were 100% since in inifinity everythin would happen, there would even be a second life planet with species, not nesisiarly more advnace than us (we might be aliens on other planets before the vice versa happens, you never know).

the thing is though, i dont belive in inifinite universe (i belive in a sphere universe too big to explore) so acoridng to that, the chance would be lower than even 1 in a tillion. thing about it this way, if where was a lottery with a tirllion tickets, donest mean no one of the tirllion humans will win (considering there are a trillion humans at the time), one of them has to win, even with these near impossible chances, and if that one doesnt the other ones will. that means the chance of us happening is low, but if we didnt happen something else might have happend. (i dont know like dog like creatures ruling the universe or something... i bet that had a good one in a trillion chance too)

maybe we are not even the best of the tillion choices (we are probaly not even have way to best), but thats what happend and thats what you gotta live with. and actually i now correct myslef, the changees shold still be 100%, since eventhough the universe is limited, time is not. and with time everything may happen (that dog rulin the universe theroy, maybe it was there a tirllion years before the solar system came in to existance, i bet we werent the first system of start and planet to come were we now?).

there are many other therioes as well mabey, we go in a never ending cycle of the same events over and over (as in about a tillion years form now, eveyrhitng would be destroyed into dust particles, be remade again like it was first, and then go though the exact same cycle of someone like you askin a question like this....)

as far as evolution goes, i dont belive in it (by the scientific persepctive, it donest work, im athiest in case you didnt figure that out yet) the theroy i belive in for now is that alines abuducted the earth, full of creatures other than humans, none of them supperior than others, they took it becuase they need space to grow slaves, and those alens were actually humans, and humans were the ones alien to earth. they then left the planet considerin they didnt need slaves anymore, and those salve alines, more advnace than any other creature, started thier own life here on earth.

since us as human/alien didnt know how we came, we made up two main theiroes. the first one being religon (acording to which god happens to be the dude inchage of mission slave on earth) and the second being trying to relate ourselves to the ceatures most like us, still looking for more proof what happend before that (monkeys just happend to be most like those aliens)

please excuse the spelling and grammer erros, im in a hurry, if anyone wonders more about this or wants to have a discussion email me

Answer 10

It does rather depend on how many times we're allowed to "roll the dice".

And of course, if the odds hadn't come off, we wouldn't be here contemplating the question.

So in any universe where we're here, the odds paid off.
That makes it pretty much a 100% certainty, subjectively.