Can Evolution Be Programmed? (or "stealing glory for Charlie from ID projects")

CEH ^ | April 6, 2009

[GodGunsGuts]

Can Evolution Be Programmed?

April 6, 2009 — Some researchers are employing “evolutionary computing” as an algorithm to solve problems. But is it really evolution?...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Liberty1970]

OK, we admit it's unreasonable to believe that a car just spontaneously formed from the dust. But you see, if we just assume the existence of an automated, robotic car factory, then the existence of a car without an intelligent designer is very reasonable. Now that we've dispensed with the idea that you need to believe in an intelligent designer to explain the existence of cars...

[El Laton Caliente]

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

[Vaduz]

Evolution? if faild for Obama.

[count-your-change]

The whole business sounds like sifting through millions of tons of dirt to find a fleck of gold and then deriving equations that describe how the search was done and the gold was found.
This process must have a good name, something catchy, like The Certainty of Chance or Random Predictability, yeah, that works.
O.K., Here's my theory of Random Predictability: Any act performed often enough and with enough modifications will produce results close to reality provided that all results obtained are measured against that reality and only the closest are kept and recycled. Secondly, I get to make the rules.

[GodGunsGuts]

==The whole business sounds like sifting through millions of tons of dirt to find a fleck of gold and then deriving equations that describe how the search was done and the gold was found.

LOL!