I am a little religious (deist and Quaker background) so it's easy for me to hand-wave away the origins of life as divine, but I often think about how life could have arisen completely randomly. This line:

> everybody in the world hitting the lottery number every day for a billion years. or something.

is something I totally agree with, but the amusing confounding factor is that if "time" is infinite, then this exact scenario would happen infinity times.

Whatever the origins of life are, I'm certainly glad to be here.