......parroted.....shimrod .......??????   Hope you pay more attention to youR science !    Think I may have missed your probabilities point, but since you mention that word, I hear that the probability of a self replicating simplest cell is a figure with so many noughts after it, as to be impossible. Maybe , btw, it is you that needs to write to lemski, telling him you ain't looked at his work but a creationist referenced it to demonstrate that citrate digesting bugs is the best that can be shown, and could he please show how that demonstrates I microbes to mudcatters evolution?