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A standard deck of 52 unique cards can be arranged in 52! (52 factorial) different orders.

That's:80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000

Or roughly 8.0658 × 10⁶⁷

A standard deck of 52 unique cards can be arranged in 52! (52 factorial) different orders. That's:80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 Or roughly 8.0658 × 10⁶⁷
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But, but, but I was told that bacteria randomly rearranged its dna to become a monkey. The permutation of that event is statistically impossible. Therefore, I will disregard the math and pretend it doesn't exist in order to maintain my opinion on evolution.

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80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 is the combinations from a starting value of 52. The starting value of bacteria is approximately 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Each slightly mutate through their fast lived generations. Mutations may, or may not be useful as seen in subsequent generations.

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So you're telling me there's a chance?

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Selective breeding is a type of short term controlled evolution that we have done with all sorts of both plants and animals. It isn't a stretch to realize that over the course of millions of years, due to environmental reasons or random mutation, you can wind up with vastly different varieties of life forms.