The Kurgan reviews Probability Zero on his stack:
This book is the academic version of the supposed asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Except, unlike that theory, this one is absolutely factual, and undeniable. The target is the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection, and probably, the careers of pretty much every evolutionary biologist that ever believed in it, and quite a few professional atheists who have always subscribed to it as an article of faith.
Vox proves —with a math so rigorous that it literally has odds that even physicists consider to be certain— that evolution by natural selection is, as the title makes clear, simply impossible.
The math is not even particularly complex, and every possible avenue that could be explored, or that ignorant or innumerate people try to come up with as a knee-jerk reaction before even having read this work, has been covered.
The point is simple: There really is no way out. Whatever the mechanism is that produces fixed and differentiated species, randomness, natural selection, or survival of the fittest, simply cannot account for it. Not even remotely.
That’s an excerpt. Read the whole thing there.
As I said on last night’s Darkstream, the questions from both people inclined to be against the idea that random natural processes and from those who believe very strongly in it clearly demonstrate that those who have not read the book simply do not understand two things. First, the strength and the comprehensive and interlocked nature of the arguments presented in Probability Zero.
Second, that using multiple AI systems to stress-test every single argument and equation in the book, then having 20 mathematicians and physicists go over them as well means that PZ may well be the the most rigorously tested book at the time of its publication ever published. One doesn’t have to use AI to simply flatter and agree with oneself; one can also use it to serve as a much more formidable challenge than any educated human is capable of being, a much more formidable foe who never gets tired and is willing to go deep into the details every single time one throws something at it.
