hasmanean

Richard, since you were programming your own software to model evolution and are probably aware of the process by which programs get written ( hint: they are evolved, with incremental changes from one working version to another)...and since DNA can be thought of as a piece of software, can you comment on what insights writing software has given you on evolution?

What have readers told you they think "1 in 87 billion" even means?

Reading your paper I see you computed 14!, and assumed the unique ordering of the 14 phrases she copied from FLOTUS was what you were calculating. If you had said that, it could have been comprehended by any high school student.