don't trust everything you read. look at the evidence yourself.

Don't take it personally, but most creationist arguments are easy to skewer even when they DON'T fail simple math :-/

He is not saying it is 1^1 with 400 centillion zeros.
He is talking probability, not powers.
It is represented as 1:1 with 400 centillion zeros after it.
That is not grade school math unless you were able to take honors classes.

Au contraire; if you read the plain English of "one to a number with...", it is exactly what he said. What he ^wished^ he had said differently and correctly is of course quite another thing. But "what he is saying" is in fact what he said.

We are talking math, not English. Answering a math problem incorrectly and arguing that you didn't understand because the "plan English reading means something else" will be frowned upon by your professor and they will most likely use it as a humorous anecdote with their colleagues.

Mathematics of Evolution by Sir Fred Hoyle. Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.