Highly Improbable Coincidences

Many people who object to the theory of evolution would argue that the entire theory is built upon a sequence of very improbable events. The events are very unlikely, but this argument fails to account for the mind-boggling timescales that are involved. Over long enough times, the highly improbable becomes probable.

For example, we would normally consider one chance in a billion over a period of a year to be negligibly small odds -- practically impossible. But over a period of a billion years an event with such a probablility becomes very likely.