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Figure 15. The size of The New Testament's New Jerusalem if centered on North America. An event or situation is a nomological possibility 2.6 if it is possible, given the laws of nature that govern our universe. Certainly, the above described fence is technically possible, although economically impossible. Today, these laws of nature are described in mathematical terms. If one searches hard on the web, there are a couple of sites which consider mathematical impossibility to be expressed by a probability number of one chance in 1050. This number is one hundred thousand billion, billion, billion, billion, billion. Given such large numbers, whether from a scientific or a religious source, there needs to be tools for managing and understanding them. Probability is one mathematical tool. Arvin S. Gibson’s book 2.7 describes several examples of early work on probability theory, work which spanned both scientific and religious questions. For example, he describes one of the earliest books to address whether life could have occurred spontaneously on the Earth:

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