If I understand the discussion from the Hoover Institution linked in my signature, things have to be just so and timing and environment are not really involved. That is the reason that Darwin is discarded forever and ever world without end. The only question is how long it will take Americans do face the facts.
Yes, a good point, cmg. Their model does not require special timing, except to observe that there is not enough time to try all of the options randomly. However, it would require that everything be present for selection, as well as a very special environment conducive to their preservation in the meantime, but they are granting these without discussion.
On the other hand, KS offhandedly dismisses the prohibitive probability, insisting without clear basis that something will accurately select so that the required time is drastically reduced. However, if we are going to go there, then I want to know all of the details of how everything just happened to come together at the right time, in the right place, in the righy way. On its best day, the answer will be extremely complicated, or unacceptably incomplete. The strictly natural "just so" stories are just that, fairlytales with hopeful monsters.
I can understand the desire to search all of this out scientifically, but dismiss with more skepticism than an atheist, and justifiably so, any attempt to pretend the strictly natural one is already an open and shut case. It is no such thing, and by all appearances requires special involvement, that is, intelligent design.
I note two things from the video. First, Gelernter rejects Meyer's ID theory only on aesthetic religious grounds. Second, Berlinski, who usually comes across as a skeptic says it's true that, "The world is charged with the grandeur of God," without basing it on biology.
A better link might be one with some text as well as the video:
Mathematical Challenges To Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution, With David Berlinski, Stephen Meyer, And David Gelernter