In your friend’s defense, I could turn that around:
Years ago, I was speaking to someone when he casually remarked that he believed in evolution. And I said, “This is not the nineteenth century. When Darwin first proposed evolution, it might have been reasonable to believe in it. But this is the twenty-first century. We can look at cells. Cells are hideously complex. It’s over.”
He said, “Maybe all the features arose by coincidence.”
I said, “The odds of that are something like two to the power of seven hundred and fifty million to one.”
In your friend’s defense, I could turn that around:
Years ago, I was speaking to someone when he casually remarked that he believed in evolution. And I said, “This is not the nineteenth century. When Darwin first proposed evolution, it might have been reasonable to believe in it. But this is the twenty-first century. We can look at cells. Cells are hideously complex. It’s over.”
He said, “Maybe all the features arose by coincidence.”
I said, “The odds of that are something like two to the power of seven hundred and fifty million to one.”
He said, “But there’s still a chance, right?”