Of course it's unlikely that's why so much attention was drawn to it. If 100s of ships pass through the canal every week then that unlikely event decreases drastically over long periods of time until inevitable that something like this would go wrong.
I don't think liberals really support Marx. Liberalism is pro-capitalism. Socialists/Communist on the other hand do support this from what I've seen.
Isn't it also true that no organism since the formation of earth ever wore clothes until humans? Or like channeled electricity? Or created a constitution? Plenty of arguments to be had this just seems kinda dumb.