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To life in sort of a miracle tv loves to build around which is why abc's "resurrection" ves nating, but in the real world honest-to-god miracles happen all the time the existence of life on this plan set a miracle, a man winning the lottery twice in one year with the same numbers, a miracle. a show on msnbc hosting by me, total miracle. but then again maybe these things aren't really miracles. for a look at why mere calls and rare events happen every single day let's bring in emeritus professor of mathematics author of the book "the improbability principal." professor you say most things we co...

But suppose i tell you i had been flipping the coin a long time and i had been flipping it for millions of times before the 20 consecutive heads came up. you wouldn't think that was so improbable and you would notice it when it happened. a law of truly large numbers which basically says if you keep doing something for long enough, something extraordinarily will happen. >> a lot that is profound in this book and really beautiful in this book. you write some people seem to think understanding a phenomenon takes away the mystery but a grasp of the cause of the colors of the rainbow doesn't detrac...