[VOA]

Now, NSF-supported researchers at the University of California at San Diego have
created a computer model that accurately predicts how E. coli metabolic systems
adapt and evolve when the bacteria are placed under environmental constraints.

This should feed plenty of lively discussions between Darwinian random evolutionists
and intelligent design proponents.

Does the ability to design a computer program that can predict evolution mean that
the scientists have successfully modeled the random walk of evolution...
or shown that "the grand designer" has created a system that even a computer program
can imitate...

I've got no opinion either way...can just see this being batted about...

[Schmedlap]

Posted by ImaGraftedBranch:
"They can't even model a protein properly yet...how on earth do they make this quantum leap?"

It's apples and oranges. That is like saying, "they can't even travel through time, yet. How on Earth do they know how to make a computer program that predicts genetic mutations in bacteria?"

Posted by VOA:
"Does the ability to design a computer program that can predict evolution mean that the scientists have successfully modeled the random walk of evolution."

I don't think so. Obviously I don't have access to the program, but I assume that the program determines which genetic mutations would actually be expressed and then which of those that would be expressed would allow the organism to live and reproduce.