Also think for a moment about the scale of the universe.
It's not as if there's only a matter of a few thousand galaxies in it.
Take a glass of water. Suppose that in this glass there's three mol's of water. Now, there's something like (I'm really wishing I remembered this number
) 3 x 6x10^23 molecules of water in this glass. Each molecule contains one atom of oxygen, and two atoms of hydrogen. The first electron shell (1s), also the only occupied shell on a hydrogen atom, can be compared to a pea in the center of a rugby field. The pea being the hydrogen nucleus, and the rugby field (suppose it's a circle with a 50m radius) the first electron shell. Oxygen has a lot more electrons, most of which are in shells a lot further out.
Now, these electrons, neutrons and protons are made up of even smaller particles - the existence of which (mostly due to their size) is not entirely well documented. These particles are things like quarks, leptons, neutrinos, tachyons, bosons, etc. (of which quarks leptons and bosons are the ones that make up the electrons, neutrons and protons - also, forget about the proton as it's basically just a neutron with an electron removed - yep, something that wasn't there has been removed).
As you can imagine, compared to 5 billion people walking around on the Earth, these particles are unfathomably small, and countless billions of them make up enough matter to cover your monitor in that dust that seems to collect on it.
Suppose that 5 billion people walking around on the Earth are the universes equivalent to these particles to us - except that these particles exist inside the universe, so the comparison is ridiculous.
Anyway, with this sort of scale, how can the accident which is life
not have come about in at least one place?