Chance

One argument against the THEORY of evolution is that there is no way that humans could not have evolved by mere chance. This argument is faulty on so many levels. However, I would like to take a look at some happenings of chance. An average man ejaculates around 180 million sperm (the number was higher before). If we just took this number, the odds that one of these sperm fertilizes an egg is at least 1 in 180 million. Now we can start to look at the number of eggs that a woman produces. If a woman only has 100 eggs the odds are a whopping 1 in 180 billion for each of us to come in to existence. A woman only ovulates briefly each month. If a couple were to try to create a baby once a day for a month, the odd would multiply to a whopping 5.4 trillion. This is simply the odds that a baby is created in one months time. Yet somehow we have overcome these odds to enjoy the reality that there are over 6 billion people on the planet. The chances that each person is who they are are very slim, yet the chances that a couple gets pregnant is not that slim. If we were to look at the lottery the same thing could be found. Usually as a jackpot gets larger, more people buy tickets. As more and more people buy tickets, the odds for each individual ticket becomes much more bleak. However, the odds are increased that someone will have the winning ticket because more combinations of numbers will have been drawn. Even though the odds are slim for each individual is very slim, some lucky ticket holder may find that they hold the winning ticket. The more a couple has sex, the chances for each sperm becomes slimmer, yet the odds that the couple will get pregnant is increased.

Well, I am sitting here typing this. So much for odds.......