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Ok, the "What are the odds?" argument is quite silly. It assumes that there is an end goal when these "mutations" start happening.
For instance, flip a coin 10 times and write down the results. When you are done you will have created a sequence that will only occur once in every 2,048 ten-flip attempts! But in reality it means nothing unless you had that particular combination as a goal at the outset.
I am no anti-Christian, but these kind of arguments always bugged me for their intellectual dishonesty. Not saying it's on purpose, but irrelevant none the less.
So, while the existence of any life in the first place is amazing, the fact that mutations of life ended up in some form of "more perfect" life is not. In fact it's quite predictable.
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