I never said highly probable. There you go again. The odds of winning the california lottery is about 1:259,000,000. That's less than 1. Someone wins, eventually. Not every week, but eventually. Less than 1 doesn't mean impossible as you've translated my words to mean.
The odds that jlprk suggests that there is life is akin to a coin flip (50-50, or 1:2). I've written (in different combinations of words with the hope that you'll comprehend their meaning) that the odds of life nobody knows, that I think it's similar to the tiny 1:259,000,000 number and that jlprk and many scientists seem to think it's 50-50. I say it looks like way < 1 odds because we can't find it. jlprk says the universe is so big that there's lots of life but it doesn't have to be close enough for us to detect. I say if we can detect it, it's a good indication it's everywhere. If we can't detect it, it suggests that what life is out there is infrequent and likely to be so far away from us that we may as well be alone in the universe (as the astrophysicist you quoted, then mischaracterized, actually said).
People express doubt as a measure of odds because doubt means:
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