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Even if the odds for such an event to occur naturally by random chance were the same as "God did it", it would still be astronomically low.


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Trying to calculate the probability of an event for which there is no known natural explanation is basically the same as doing it for an event caused by God. Even if you could how could you compare it to the same event caused by God?

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I'm certainly not the best person to correspond with on this one, because I am terrible at math.

However, I'm pretty sure that it is theoretically possible for all the molecules to align up in such a way as to cause the parting of the Red Sea as described in the bible. That you would need an almost infinite amount of time before we would expect a single occurance, is irrelevant. The fact is, it is theoretically possible and given enough time (infinity?), we shouldn't be surprised if it happened once.

As a side subject, I think this puts evolution in perspective. People don't realize (or can't fathom), the odds for life originating by chance on our planet. They can't comprehend the BILLIONS of years it took for evolution to produce life as we now see it. But in an infinite universe, over the course of billions of years, a lot of things that might seem impossible to the human mind can happen.