[CarolinaGuitarman]

" So Darwinists have some limited understanding of probability. Would that they apply it more broadly."

Better than the anti-evo's complete lack of any mathematical sophistication. :)

[PatrickHenry]

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[bvw]

Here's a typical and absolutely idiotic view of probability from Talk of the Ascended Ori, oopsy, I mean TalkOrigins.

In a calculation similar to Hoyle's, mathematician Roger Penrose has estimated that the probability of a universe with our particular set of physical properties is one part in 1010123 (Penrose 1989). However, neither Penrose nor anyone else can say how many of the other possible universes formed with different properties could still have lead to some form of life. If it is half, then the probability for life is fifty percent.

[http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/cosmo.html]

Well, one part if 1010123 is really one part in 10 to the power of 10123, but that may just be a error in mine or their HTML.

Still, I guess, to mathematical idiots or Ascended Beings and Darwinists, 1/2 sounds passably close to 1/10 to the power of 10123. ;-)