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Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks by HelloNurse on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:17PM (#36864686)
That highly probable events actually happen can be a reasonable practical assumption, but definitely not a logical certainty. It is the hard, probabilistic version of the sorites paradox: with few atoms and little time, any chemical process is unlikely; with a whole planet and a few billion years, chemical processes are very likely; at some intermediate sample size you can feel justified to assume that what you are interested in happens, but it is only a feeling, not a real qualitative threshold.

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