He figured if he threw in a couple of names of scientific theorems the scientifically-illiterate folks out there would exclaim "Ah ha! This fellow must know about that against which he rales as he uses scientific jargon!"
Oh, name-dropping. Got it.
I can sort of see how you might bring Bernoulli's Theorem into a discussion of evolution, seeing as how it relates to the probabilities of observed events, but Pascal's Theorem? Huh?