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Likelyhood of Existence

The likelyhood of everything around us being present today can be best describe by evolution professor Dr. Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard University.  He describes that bioevolution is a copiously branching bush that originated by an improbable accumulation of accidental contingencies.   Evolution professor Dr. Bruce Firstman of Cal Poly Pomona states that the, "probability of the existence of your individual, unique genome is about one over a googolplex."  A googoplex can be describe by this mathematical equation: . Calculators that exist today would come out with an error of undefine or overflow since the number is so huge for it to computate.

The scientific community believes that the universe lies at an age of 13 billion years from the beginning of the big bang theory.  Also it is accepted that our sun lies at an age of 6 billion years, the earth at 5 billion, and the biosphere at 4.5 billion. The first prokaryotes are estimated to exist roughly 3.7 billion years and the eukaryotes at 1.8 billion years.  It has been estimated that our sun is in its half life and has another 5 or so billion years before it uses all of its hydrogen gas.  It will eventually expand it size so great that planets including the earth would be engulfed.  Between now and the point in time when that event comes, we must learn to sustain the biosphere to the maximum.  We humans have only been here for a short period of time compared to the age of the earth.  We must attempt vigorously to sustain the environment in each and every aspect, for it's the only place we have to live now.

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