Does Science/Statistics Prove a Supernatural Intervention?

[McBell]

I'm curious what everyone thinks of this.

If you consider the odds of your birth and they are probably pretty slim. Just for arguments sake, probably less than winning most lotteries. Now let's take that back to the odds of your parents' birth and so forth back to the beginning of the homosapien. Now we obviously know that the odds of successive events are measured through the product of the individual odds for each event. So we multiply all those odds together and we get a number, a very very small number.

Now I would argue that that number is so infinitesimally small that it would be equivalent to zero. So mathematics and statistics would effectively say that the likelihood of our individual existence is zero.

So since the odds for our individual existence are effectively zero, does that mean that other, potentially supernatural, forces were acting on our behalf???

Um...
The odds of my birth are 1:1.
Why?
Because I am here.

One wonders if you can see that calculating the odds of something happening AFTER the fact is pretty useless.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Um...
The odds of my birth are 1:1.
Why?
Because I am here.

One wonders if you can see that calculating the odds of something happening AFTER the fact is pretty useless.

No doubt.
Even if it were next to impossible that simple fact alone of being born automatically gives it 1/whatever number you want. It can't be totally impossible with odds like that. There's all the time in the world. Err... universe.

Zero is already refuted, but it was a nice try on part of the op.