Sounds like their conceptual foundation is built on the premise that evolutionary theory is true.
Which means if it’s not true, the whole thing falls apart.
One of the biggest questions about the origin of life and its subsequent evolution is how random molecules managed to organize themselves into complex living organisms.
Nothing random about it, but if that's the premise, no one ever need worry about discovering the right answer.
It's all kind of funny about these self-replication studies with letters, though, because "In the beginning..."
...בראשית ברא
In the beginning created God the heavens and the earth.
"In the beginning, [the letters] bet resh alef..." repeat themselves.
The sum of bet, resh, and alef is 203, the 7th Bell number. Bell numbers are all about partitions, groupings, and organization, and are named after Eric Temple Bell, whose last name is spelled bet lamed, which are the first and last letters of the Torah (and also the whole Tanakh). Therefore everything in the Hebrew Bible is contained within these two letters that spell Bell, or lev, heart.
The Amalekite system of probabilities and randomness fails spectacularly because nothing is random. 1 and 2, well known from the Purim commentaries...
502:
1. "Cursed be Haman" (ארור המן)
2. "Blessed be Mordecai". (ברוך מרדכי)
3. "Eric Temple Bell" (אריק טמפל בל)
The Great Pyramid is missing its capstone. That's not random, because it's absurd to conclude that those with the skill and knowledge to build it with such fine precision in the first place would mess up on the last block. So there it stands, with its 203 courses of masonry.
Back to basics. Case in point:
Eze 37
16. And you, son of man, take one stick [etz], and write upon it, For Judah, and for the people of Israel his companions; then take another stick [etz], and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick [etz] of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17. And join them one to the other into one stick [l'etz echad, 203]; and they shall become one in your hand:
etz: tree, wood, stick
The two Hebrew letters that are shaped like sticks (i.e. tree branches) are the ayin and tzaddi sofit. Put them together and they spell the word etz, tree. Nothing weird or mystical magicky there. Two sticks, one tree:
עץ
Child's play, but people overthink this stuff. ;)
The random letter researcher is named Chris Adami. What's in a name (names)? He really should look those up.
Everything is ordered:
In number theory and enumerative combinatorics, the ordered Bell numbers or Fubini numbers count the number of weak orderings on a set of n elements (orderings of the elements into a sequence allowing ties, such as might arise as the outcome of a horse race).[1] Starting from n = 0, these numbers are 1, 1, 3, 13, 75, 541...
All Israel in the beginning...
An ordered tree (or plane tree) is a rooted tree in which an ordering is specified for the children of each vertex.[16] This is called a "plane tree" because an ordering of the children is equivalent to an embedding of the tree in the plane, with the root at the top and the children of each vertex lower than that vertex. Given an embedding of a rooted tree in the plane, if one fixes a direction of children, say left to right, then an embedding gives an ordering of the children. Conversely, given an ordered tree, and conventionally drawing the root at the top, then the child vertices in an ordered tree can be drawn left-to-right, yielding an essentially unique planar embedding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(graph_theory)#Ordered_tree
Who can keep track?! God's a funny guy..