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red75prime • today at 3:59 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

In an infinite universe even events with probability 0 can happen[1], but it's hard to find this explanation satisfactory. Any hypothesis that raises probability of abiogenesis to make it likely to happen at least in the observable universe looks more satisfactory than "but it could have happened anyway in an infinite universe despite being totally improbable."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely