If it is unlikely “that any two complex snow crystals … have ever looked completely alike”, then think how even more unlikely it would be if matching snowflakes were found in two different places in the universe, at the same time, on two separate planets whose evolutionary circumstances were precisely parallel! This is story of odds -. odds, and those who would bet them - not verisimilitude.. (Though, for verisimilitude’s sake, I’m sure two distinct matching snowflake pairs were found, and no implication was made by the story that four alike snowflakes could possibly simultaneously exist.)
@NightGaunt
If it is unlikely “that any two complex snow crystals … have ever looked completely alike”, then think how even more unlikely it would be if matching snowflakes were found in two different places in the universe, at the same time, on two separate planets whose evolutionary circumstances were precisely parallel! This is story of odds -. odds, and those who would bet them - not verisimilitude.. (Though, for verisimilitude’s sake, I’m sure two distinct matching snowflake pairs were found, and no implication was made by the story that four alike snowflakes could possibly simultaneously exist.)