The Argument from Tiny Probabilities Fails to Refute Evolution

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It's another Creationist video trying to show that the probabilities of life arising by chance have such small probabilities that this means it can't have happened, which is of course, fallacious reasoning.

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"This is why Evolution is WRONG!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLOoWdGDR4c
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