One in 10^22 seems really easy odds to beat. Basically anything should happen more often than that, right? But if we choose a random 16 letters, the odds that t

One in 10^22 seems really easy odds to beat. Basically anything should happen more often than that, right? But if we choose a random 16 letters, the odds that they spell "unscientifically" is less than that. If we gave 16 letters to each of the 10^22 stars, we expect the word to happen on only one star, if even that. It's not too hard to argue that life is more difficult to get by random chance than the word "unscientifically", so we can't simply argue that "of course life will happen with those odds!"