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Originally posted by THE MAC GOD
It's likely... but one thing science proves time and time again that the likeliness of something happening that extreme (to push evolution forward) is sooo minute, it's basically impossible. And for it to happen OVER and OVER is another impossibility that is incalculable. A way to relate the kind of 'luck' evolution would have to get from beginning to us was described this way:
Fill Texas up with nickels up to 8 feet. Paint the side of ONE nickel red. Now, the chances of every step of evolution getting us to where we are now would be the same as you randomly picking that RED nickel everytime you tried.
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Your analogy is flawed in that evolution does not have a presupposed goal (ie - find the red nickle). It is a series of subtle shifts in genotype that expresses due to environmental pressure. As I said before, you can watch it in action (peppered moths being by far the best example).
Now if I had a fish in my hand and said to myself: "I want this to become a human in a million generations.", then yes, the odds are improbable in the extreme. But that is simply not how it works.