What are the odds against a random event creating a complex and balanced universe?

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but I suspect this man can tell you:

http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 2

As a matter of fact the calculation is too complex to come up with a number. However intuition would seem to indicate it's highly unlikely. Though not everything which many be intuitively obvious is necessarily a fact.

Besides, doesn't the Bible say, "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD." Pr 16:33. So when you flip a coin, doesn't God determine outcome? So if things did come about by "chance", even that doesn't remove God from the equation.

Answer 3

Do you think the universe is 'balanced'? Sorry, sir, but you err. The 'random event' to which you refer, meaning the Big Bang I guess, did not 'create' the universe with a random snap of the fingers but across billions of years--more or less 15 billion. And the baby is still growing, expanding, doing its thing.

Answer 4

That would depend on how big the universe is compared to everything else outside its boundaries, wouldn't it?
Wouldn't an atomic orbital seem like a nearly infinite space for something as small as an electron?
Your question seems to be implying:
1) that our universe is the largest form of space,
2) that our universe doesn't just seem large, because we are terribly small and insignificant, and
3) that our universe is balanced, just because our rules, seem to apply as we have described them, even though we have almost no knowledge of it in comparison with how much their is to know.

Who says we aren't some other universe's hydrogen atom bonded to another hydrogen, and an oxygen, swirling around their version of a toilet stool?

Answer 5

The odds of existence to be here at all is incredibly slim, if not virtually nil. Yet, as I like to say, as time approaches infinity, the improbable becomes the inevitable.

Answer 6

Essentially zero, since the universe we currently inhabit is complex, but not balanced.

HTH

Charles

Answer 7

if its a truely random event than the number is as vast as the number of ideas we can come up with.

so id say about .000000000000000000001

Answer 8

Do you have a random event in mind?

Answer 9

But given an infinite amount of time.. the unprobable become probable.

Answer 10

Well, we just gave it our best shot and went for it. Never know how the soup is going to turn out until it is cooked.

Answer 11

Chi expanding!