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NightlyPoe said:
Yes. The odds against my birth are so infinitesimally small that it would seem arrogant to believe I was just that lucky. The universe would have to evolve pretty much exactly as it did for 13.8 billion years in order to give me the chance to see through these eyes.

As for what that God entails, I remain fairly faithless on the details.

If I shuffle a deck of cards, the odds of the deck ending up in the order I shuffled them are 1/80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

So, let's say I play a game of poker during which the deck is shuffled 50 times.  The odds against that particular sequence of shuffles would be so astronomical that I'm pretty sure I couldn't fit them into a message here in standard notation.  But, does the fact that the sequence did in fact occur despite such unfathomably small odds mean that someone or something designed it to happen that way?