[tacticalogic]

One can test the probabilities that varying degrees of complexity found in nature would or could ever occur spontaneously or randomly and the way you prevent someone from doing it is to fire them from your faculty in order to send a message to anyone else thinking about doing said tests. Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled” covered the entire subject contained in both your questions in great detail.

If they were fired for doing the test then the test got done. But any such test is an exercise in trying to prove a negative which is a logically flawed enterprise from the outset.

[circlecity]

"If they were fired for doing the test then the test got done. But any such test is an exercise in trying to prove a negative which is a logically flawed enterprise from the outset."

No, they were fired for proposing to do the research. And no, it's not unreasonable to investigate a negative. Like all science, we investigate probabilities in order to ascertain predictability. .