God plays dice, and we win
Order seems to derive from chaos, if properly disturbed... And, given infinite time, anything is possible. For example, as absurd as it may seem, the air molecules that are in your room right now and that are moving with apparent randomness, perhaps suddenly, could all move to a corner and leave you breathless. That perhaps is statistically possible, although highly unlikely. However, the same ridiculous probability seems to hold for life and, more pathetically likely, consciousness. A series of fortuitous episodes had to occur so constant in time that reproducibility on any other world is impossible. So, we come across, ladies and gentlemen, the so-called anthropic principle. If certain absurdly probable conditions must be met in a universe to allow you and me to think, that thought is proof that they are finally met. For example, if the charge of the electrons were slightly less, they would be attracted to the atomic nuclei and the atom would collapse, preventing the existen...