How does anything beat 1 to 10 raised to the 167,896 power odds?
It doesn’t. Ted’s sample calculation of the odds is invalid, because it presumes a simplest-replicator many orders of magnitude larger than abiogeneticists propose, and treats individual events as independent, which no abiogeneticist proposes. In short, those odds are a straw man. The “argument from improbability” is discussed in the talk.origins archive several places, including the biology section of the Index of Creationist Claims, and a probability bibliography.
