DNA Understanding Information: Why Snowflakes and the Lottery Have Nothing to Say about Evolution by Kevin P. Moritz The Lottery Frequently, in creation/evolution discussions and debates, the odds are brought up concerning the probability of random forces creating the order of amino acids in DNA. And it’s rightly pointed out by creationists that for such huge, encyclopedic amounts of genetic information, the odds that it could have come about randomly are practically 0. In reply, the opposition (usually those among it that have little understanding of the issue) often responds with arguments such as the following: “The odds that any one person will win the lottery are extremely small, but someone wins it every week” or “Shuffle a deck of cards, and the odds against its resulting order are inconceivably small, yet there it is.” There are two points to consider, though, in these types of arguments. The first is that when you shuffle a deck of cards, a resulting order has to happen.