Are creationist crticisms of ToE based upon the assumption that creation happened?

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And I also agree that the thought that humans are nothing
special appears to underly the rejection of evolution more
than anything else.

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But I think we ARE special and unique as a species. We are, after all, amazingly sucessful. So successful that we may be the demise of our planet. We can manipulate our environment (and adapt, through use of technology, to different envirenments) to our benefit like no other species we are aware of, except maybe bacteria. Bacteria don't have self-consciousness, thopugh, so we are special in two ways right there.However, I also believe that every species is special and unique!All of this "specialness" and "uniqueness" isn't evidence for the supernatural. It does make me find profundity and beauty in randomness, nature, physics, and time.

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I understand your incredulity based on the "odds," but one has to keep in minds that in the engineering we do today (as described above), we have so many failures because we are looking for a particular, predetermined outcome. That was not the case with evolution--any outcome would suffice.

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For a very good book about the lack of understanding most people have of mathematics and especially of probability and odds, read, "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and it's Consequences" by John Allen Paulos