<Why is it that all those infinite numbers of viruses haven't killed us all until now, even though they had an infinite number of opportunities to recombine and to do so?>
Because they are like Al Qaeda and other destroyers. Destruction can only take place when something is there. The virus can't kill us all off or they cease to exist and there's nothing. Nevertheless, the bugs have killed an awful lot of us.
It's an eons-long biocidal battle and ironically, we actually find the bugs quite useful because they are a way for us to wage war against competing people who don't have resistance to "our" parasitic viruses.
We sneeze on them and they die off! It's much easier than swords and clubs.
Those who can't cope with the virus will die and those of us who can will occupy the houses, roads, airports, hospitals, land, oil fields and so on that the dead leave behind.
Also, apart from construction being the main business of existence, and destruction just being a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff, the probability of anything happening is 1. It's just our ignorance which makes us think there's some other possibility.
So, even though the probability something really bad happening seems certain, ending all of us, remember that each living thing is the current victor in a billion-year long game of chance with an infinite array of narrow escapes for all those millions of years and not once, not ever, did any of your ancestors die, in that long, unbroken chain of DNA winding its way back to the beginning of life, before they produced the next generation which then beat impossible odds yet again.
What is the chance of you being there right now reading this? It is infinitely impossible, because for a billion years, every single one of your ancestors had to beat long odds and go on to have the next generation. Which they did.
Not only that, so did mine. Then, against all odds, of all the things you could be doing right this instant, here you are reading this. Neither of us died before we arggghhhh...ooph...ohhhhh...... |
