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Yes, but the odds of getting another working combination are also unimaginably low, and another, and another, and the set of all theoretical combinations of working molecules could -- we don't know -- sum to something very large. The existence of one, precisely specified, kind of life is a single data point, and you can't generalize unless you've got lots of datapoints, which in this case we have not got.

"The odds of my being hit by a car at this particular corner at this particular moment are staggeringly low!" Fine, but the odds of somebody being hit by a car at this corner seem to be about 20%, and the odds of your being hit by a car somewhere, at some point in your life, are quite substantial.

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