I'm probably exposing my ignorance here, but didn't zero have a historical evolution, so to speak?

Your recollection is correct: the understanding of math developed gradually. My criticism of Landsburg was mainly that he's not even using a consistent definition of math.

And as you note, under reasonable definitions of math, it did develop gradually.

On his human life, point, if DNA encoding encompasses all of complex numbers (being that it needs that system in order to be described), isn't it then necessarily more complex, since it requires all of complex numbers plus it's own set of rules and knowledge base as well?

Yes, exactly. That's why human life is more complex than the string representing the genome: you also have to know what that (compressed) genome specification refers to, the chemical interactions involved, etc.

The ban was probably for the best Silas, you were probably confusing everyone with the facts.

:-)