Calculating the Maximum Number of Trials Evolution Could Have Performed

Countless people use the following rationale to justify saying there was no need for an intelligent designer behind life: evolution has had a near-infinite number of trials in which to create the full diversity of life, including its molecular machines, molecular computers, and digitally encoded genomes. Let's take an opportunity to examine these points more closely.

In other scientific disciplines, the first step one must take before figuring out a solution is to establish the boundary cond...