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another thing I see, is that since a mutation can be something as trivial of swapping two letters in a 4 letter sequence and since there are many factors that can trigger such swaps, in a 2.5 billion year time span, it seems more likely to me that every possible combination has existed and competed. If you look at it mathematically. In so many trials the mutations would not only lead to useful information but to every possible state of information time after time.

Its like buying every possible ticket in a Powerball draw, with natural selection to sort out the losing tickets and doing that billions of times. If you look at the math once life gets started it is hard to imagine life not evolving.