You are correct about the lotto numbers any given set is equally likely to any other given set of numbers.

But I think the likelihood of "a smooth accurate statue of a human" appearing in a cave due to water erosion to be far more improbable then a particular set of numbers.

When all the patterns of water erosion are evaluated, there seems to me to be far, far more patterns for "chaos" then "a clarity of structure". So for that clarity of structure to occur - that shifts it into a level of improbability that I - personally - would find it phenomenally amazing.

You are right - that doesn't mean it can't happen. But the odds favor chaotic erosion.

You may not find it phenomenally amazing - but I was only speaking from my perspective.

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• Not a good analogy in my humble opinion - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 04:56 PM EDT