and why can
I not "invoke" the laws of probability , stu.
you are again just asserting that the other disciplines provide strong evidence, and expect me to believe it.
you are also still trying to pass off belief in a creator as anti science , when it is rather a case of competing ideas which interpret the data variously.
the only challenge of any substance that you present regards the positioning of fossils in the geologic column.
whilst acknowledging that there is apparently an order in the fossils , it is not as clearcut as you might like to think, and specimens have been moved in position as new fossil discoveries are unearthed.
I have no doubt that in the event of spectacular discoveries in the fossils coming to light, you will only fall back on your pious pronouncements of science never assuming anything, just as you now do with the dino discoveries.
mind you, you do offer more to chew on than someone else here who only offers insults and flowery assertions!