If we had some serious evidence that souls not only exist, but also precede the existence of a person, that a soul is somehow chosen to be instantiated in newborn, then it would be understandable why we could assume that being born is a random sample
Only if there are already quadrillions of souls. Which would be necessary later if and when we go to the stars, but seem like more angels than are required to dance on the head of this particular pin right now. Cultures that believe in reincarnation tend to believe rebirths occur fairly frequently, with a shortish delay after death. If this is correct then it is relatively easy to deduce that the number of souls being incarnated as humans must have been rising in proportion with the hockey-stick curve of human population over the history of our species. So either souls reproduce or are produced somehow (such as by duplication or binary fission or intelligent creation), or else some of a very large number of souls that use to incarnate as, say, ants or paramecia are starting to incarnate as humans. If this is in fact the Kali Yuga, then that last hypothesis sounds rather plausible.
Only if there are already quadrillions of souls. Which would be necessary later if and when we go to the stars, but seem like more angels than are required to dance on the head of this particular pin right now. Cultures that believe in reincarnation tend to believe rebirths occur fairly frequently, with a shortish delay after death. If this is correct then it is relatively easy to deduce that the number of souls being incarnated as humans must have been rising in proportion with the hockey-stick curve of human population over the history of our species. So either souls reproduce or are produced somehow (such as by duplication or binary fission or intelligent creation), or else some of a very large number of souls that use to incarnate as, say, ants or paramecia are starting to incarnate as humans. If this is in fact the Kali Yuga, then that last hypothesis sounds rather plausible.