When speaking with Creationists, one of the arguments I hear is this one:

“Do you know the chances of all the right elements being in place for life to develop on the Earth as scientists explain it? It’s something like a billion to one.”

And I tell them this:

Our galaxy contains approximately 100 to 200 billion stars. That’s stars, not planets. Just for fun, let’s take the lower number.

NASA estimates there are approximately 500 billion galaxies. Let’s say they are overestimating by five. Only 100 billion galaxies.

That means there are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. Ten sextillion stars.

Let’s assume the average number of planets for each star is five. That’s pretty conservative. That makes the total number of planets at around fifty sextillion. That’s 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Fifty sextillion planets.

So “a billion to one” doesn’t really sound all that difficult for me to believe. At least, more likely than an invisible man casting a magic spell and doing it in six days.

Oh, and by the way, the part I find the most funny is that he had to rest after he did it. An omnipotent god needing to rest. What are the chances of that?