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.
So you're telling me there's a chance?
Quick - buy a lottery ticket.
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.
Yes but the problem that even Darwin admitted to is that it just isn't backed up by the fossil record. Sure we can document small changes like he did in the different adaptations with the birds, but there should be many failed lines to produce the one existing line here now. They just don't exist. What's even weirder is there is a huge gaps with nothing at all then Boom! The Cambrian explosion.