Randomness

Below is a response I gave regarding one of the more common arguments I run across in favor of intelligent design:

"The stars, the moon, the sun and the planets, the earth that sits in a perfect distance from the sun and is tilted on it's axis at just the right angle."

I recommend Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Fooled by Randomness. As Taleb states, if you have enough monkeys on typewriters, one of them is bound to reproduce Shakespeare's works.

So, too, we have an inordinately large number of planets in the universe, and an inordinately large number of stars that these planets revolve around. Randomness suggests that, given enough planets and enough stars, one planet must have had the correct configuration to sustain life.