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What is the minimum number of amino acid molecules required to make up the simlest virus? A few thousand? I really have no idea but for the sake of argument lets call it 1000. The number of total possible combinations is 1000! which equates to 4.023872e+2567...

Tortoise has already vaporized your strawman version of evolution, but I just wanted to point out that "the number of total possible combinations" is not 1000 factorial.

I'm not going to address your biology, just your math. If we're working with 20 amino acids, and our virus will be made of 1000, the total number of permutations is 20^1000, which is vastly smaller than 1000!.

If you're going to use a combinatorial statistical argument, I'd think it best to know a little about combinatorics.

Yea, 20^1000 is ONLY 1.07150860718626732094842504906e+1301

If you had an ounce of honesty in your body you would admit that this doesn't change my argument one bit. You could try a trillion, trillion combinations every single second for 4.5 BILLION years and it would not amount to a drop in the ocean, literally. Even if there were a trillion, trillion possible "right" combinations the chances of the right combination forming are about 2.38e+1235 to 1.

You can add 100 billion years or 100 trillion years to the age of the universe and you STILL cannot escape the math.