By the way, check the April 17 issue of the respected science journal Nature, p. 638, where Baumgardner is mentioned. Baumgardner's views do not inspire respect for either Los Alamos National Laboratory or for the state of New Mexico. Evidence represents the data and models we have. The best evidence is scientific, meaning that it arose as a result of empirical or historical studies in concert with validated hypotheses. Logic is simply the application of reason and common sense to determine what conclusions can be drawn from the data.
Probability is of importance since real data are often incomplete, fragmentary, or in dispute.
It is essential to carefully define terms throughout the critical reasoning process. He says there are 10 to the 260th power proteins that can be created from 20 possible amino acids, if each protein contains 200 amino acids. Baumgardner assumes that half of the amino acids are of no importance. He computes a much smaller fraction of possible proteins constructed from only 100 amino acids. He then claims that this new number is an insignificantly small fraction of the number of possibilities when using 200 amino acids.