(With your permission) I hope to use this quote some day during a statistical discussion. Sometimes I do indulge in ein bischen Schadenfreud (spelling?) watching the Bayseans, Frequentists, and Fiducialists, argue.
Feel free. It may have more impact there than here, where it was glossed over in favor of "considerable assumptions". These creationists don't seem to realize that a parsimonious arrangement of the data, or even a maximum likelyhood method will yield a tree.