There is no human lottery that remotely approaches the long odds involved in the chance origin of the first life. Based on our current knowledge of what the origin of life would require, it appears that a trillion years times a trillion years wouldn’t have been long enough. The simplest self-reproducing organism is so insanely complex that the amount of time needed for luck to have a fighting chance vastly exceeds the age of the whole universe, and now we have a window both much shorter than that and much shorter than previously believed.
