  We revisit the problem of the "probability of inflation" from the point of
view of the Einstein-Cartan theory, where torsion can be present off-shell even
in the absence of spinorial currents. An informal estimate suggests that the
barrier for tunneling from "nothing" into a classical universe becomes thinner
and lower, should torsion be present even if only off-shell. This is confirmed
by a detailed calculation, where the usual assumptions are re-evaluated and
repurposed in our situation. Interestingly some approximations used in the
literature (such as the WKB approximation) are not needed in general, and in
particular in our case. When we consider wave packets centered around zero
torsion, however, the conclusion depends crucially how these are built. With a
Klein-Gordon current prescription for the measure and probability, for small
torsion variance, {\sigma}_c, we recover the plane wave results. Nonetheless,
for large {\sigma}c, higher order corrections could reverse this conclusion.
