He had me. I said I hadn't studied that in school. It's an excellent law. It explains why things happen that are so unlikely no one in his right mind would believe they happened by themselves. I asked for a less personal example.
Probability has nothing to do with how anything really works.
So here is Eyre's Law. We gazed for a time at the heavens, across which Dasher and Dancer had yet to course. Take a long look at those stars and try to calculate the infinitesimal odds against our own existence. Not against just our own conception but against our mother's and our father's and all the prerequisite conceptions of our ancestors back into the primal soup of time. Those are odds you don't beat just because you're lucky.