Well, i'm just going to do this step in increments of 10(chance 1:10) at a time... my logic leads me to consider this process to be very improbable to believe in, because for all this to happen, in the right order, in the right time, in the precise balance, the chances are in real life much bigger, but in increments of ten we'll get a nice number too.
10 Nothing exploded and evertyhing came into existance
10 This nothing did not evenly distribute around the universe but became lumps
10 Some of these lumps turn the wrong way around according to laws of physics
10 These lumps formed into galaxies
10 The galaxies form into solar systems
10 A specific solar system with a planet emerges which is from the precise correct distance from the sun to be able to inhabit life
10 This solar system contains many large planets which act as vacuum cleaners which prefent the little planets from being repeatedly destroyed
10 This little planet has a moon at the precise right distance for tidal workings which would not flood the earth every 6 hours
10 This little planet has a strong magnetic field to protect it from solar winds
10 This magnetic field is not too strong to kill any life on the planet
10 This little planet has a layer of ozon to keep deadly uv light out
10 On this planet plenty of water is present
10 On this planet oxygen is present, but not pure oxygen, but is relative small amounts so that it does not poison any beginning life
10 On this planet a climate emerges where clouds form, rain down and a weather system emerges
10 On this planet a deep sea flow emerges which also afflicts the world climate a lot
10 On this planet the first protein come into existance by mere chance
10 On this planet all the other proteins come into existance
10 On this planet all those proteins live through a very hostile enviroment and find eachother
10 On this planet all those proteins form aminiacids which a beneficial to life by mere chance
10 On this planet those aminoacids fold up to a usefull celluar tool by mere chance(bumped into a rock or something)
10 Those aminoacids stayed together, untill DNA which contains the building instructions for aminoacids came into existance.
10 Around them a celluar wall appeared
10 The DNA and aminoacids survived the first seconds of existance as a cell
10 The cell somehow decided to multiply itself and gave stupid enough resources up to feed on(not a very bright thing to do)
10 Somewhere along the line, cells decided to clot together.
10 Somewhere along the line DNA complexity increased
10 Somewhere along the line cells formed a living organism
10 Somewhere along the line an organ system was invented(very very big step, but if I have to outline all the intricate steps required for this step i'd still be busy next year)
10 Somewhere along the line the cells decided to become different and to become male and female(wonder what the benefit is from that evolutionwise speaking?)
10 Somewhere along the line the cells use sexual reproduction(very clumsy process, but hey, it's fun)
10 The first offspring survives
10 Genetic complixity is increased and multiple species start to exist
10 A split starts to appear between plants and animals
10 Plants start to diversify into trees, vegies, etc...
10 Animals split into insects, birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, the lot
10 From this an intelligent species arises, mankind
10 Somewhere along the line, many animals, land and sea creatures alike, happen to produce the impossible and all get fossilised at the same time(how else do we explain the mysterious presence of some many fossiles of the past, but hardly any of recent thousands of years?)
10 Man emerges out of his apelike ancestors
10 builds cultures and does not wipe itself out
38 steps I've outlined here. These are very basic steps, but if you put all the details in place which are required into place, with all the necesary steps required to produce them, with the actual mathematical chances, you'll get an astronomical numer which probaly wouldn't fit into the database.
Now we just have a chance of 1:10-37, that is, a 10 with 37 zero's behind it. What do we call that, a thirtyeightillion? and this is with just simple common knowledge steps.
But I guess that when you add the element of millions and billions of years, you can scrape off a 0 from that chance calculation, and it becomes possible.
I find it very illogical to consider, that anything that does not stand a chance in mathematical scientific calculations this day, it produces such a number it's deemed impossible or extremely highly improbable at this day, that it suddenly becomes possible when you throw in a couple of millions of years.
As far as I know, time only destroys. Have you ever seen something being built up by time? nope, the only thing that time learns us is that things break down.
What is it, that makes scientists stop to think, when you throw in millions of years... I am really curious, because in my eyes, it defies all logic and common sense.
Michael