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I'm sure you must be on the something here....executing a designed heuristic search algorithm that includes designed mathematical abstractions and a designed ("really really complicated") selection operator and a designed ("really really complicated") variation operator on a pre-exisiting designed computer must indeed prove that the world was not designed.

In fact even saved yourself a lot of work....on your next programming assignment, (I enjoyed graduate school as well) when you design coded instructions for specific actions... ....Obtain the use of as many computers as you can (make the search space as big as you want) to randomly type characters....... and then evaluate the random characters via a (designed) fitness algorithm on a pre-existing (designed) computer. If you get computers to generate enough random characters over and over and over again, and keep evaluating them with a "really really complicated" fitness algorithm, over and over again on a machine with pre-existing design and order.. I'm sure that you will eventually have a meaningful program. Given enough time and enough characters, I'm sure that random characters will eventually compile. In fact not only will they compile, they will of coarse create a meaningful program. In addition you should take the existing meaningful programs the computers you are running your heuristic search method on and apply random changes to them. I'm sure this will save you some work as well…..surely you won't introduce any bugs, and of coarse not ones that will crash the system. In fact, I am really confident that you could make multiple beneficial positive random changes in a row by typing random characters, and certainly won't produce any software that will crash from memory corruption or a stray pointer. It will also be beneficial to make random changes to the hardware the software is executing on via static electricity. This will provide external energy so the computer is not a closed system so the hardware can achieve less entropy or disorder. The new software with random changes will of coarse be more better then the existing. The software you design by generating random characters over a large search space will be so good and so fit that it will you are sure to earn an "A". Your professor will be so happy to get a gigantic pile of paper with random characters, or a gigantic stack of burned CDs full of random characters, you will surely get an A.

Undanted, the sarcastic post

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1704943/posts?page=246#246

I replied with (which you haven't replied to) wasn't intended to be an insult, I was using sarcasm to help to demonstrate the absurdity/improbability of a chance universe. You deserve credit, there is a connection with what you wrote and the topic at hand "A Mathematician's View of Evolution", which is above the fray of most of your like-minded peers on this thread. I wish you the best in graduate school..("I majored in Math, Computer Science, and Physics as an undergrad.")...I deeply enjoyed graduate school studying similar areas.

I know that you will think I am crazy when I say this as you don't believe in God.....but I will pray for you. You have an understanding of the mathematics of probability. I dare you to honestly ask the question was evolution via chance and natural process probable, was spontaneous generation probable etc? What are my presuppositions about ultimate reality, do they match or contradict the world I observe? I will lovingly and with true tears pray that the shelter you have built up will be removed and that this will allow the truth of the God's created world--reflecting His eternal attributes, his eternal power and divine nature--to shine on you. May God bless you, and may God change your heart.

.on your next programming assignment, (I enjoyed graduate school as well) when you design coded instructions for specific actions... ....Obtain the use of as many computers as you can (make the search space as big as you want) to randomly type characters....... and then evaluate the random characters via a (designed) fitness algorithm on a pre-existing (designed) computer. If you get computers to generate enough random characters over and over and over again, and keep evaluating them with a "really really complicated" fitness algorithm, over and over again on a machine with pre-existing design and order.. I'm sure that you will eventually have a meaningful program.

Anti-Gates Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

How do you think they developed the Windows operating system anyway?

Cheers!