[Right Wing Professor]

If you don't even know the role of probabilities in the structure of very simple chemical systems, like common salt, do you really think you should be making even crude estimates of probabilities of living organisms, which are far more complex?

The relationship between entropy and probability is S=k ln W (Boltzmann's equation). W is the number of possibilities; in the case of your coin, W = 2⁵⁰

[bvw]

The chemisty -- the ionic attraction -- reduces the number of available states, or rather makes some states more likely then others. The effect is to greatly reduce W or what would simply in some entropy model to W. Again, I'm assuming you are talking about the crystal being formed out of aqueous solution.