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To: PugetSoundSoldier
Your experience in programming GAs is?

About the same as Richard Hardison who was cited in Scientific American.

Yes, it does. It's called survival of the fittest. That is what GAs look for - the fittest population to work with.

No it doesn't, according to those who speak to evolution.

Darwin first used Spencer's phrase "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for "natural selection" in the fifth edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1869.[1][2] It is a metaphor, not a scientific description,[3] and is both incomplete and misleading. Survival is only one component of selection, and for example where a number of males survive to reproductive age, but only a few ever mate, the difference in reproductive success stems mainly from ability to attract mates rather than ability to survive. In an evolutionary sense, fitness is the average reproductive output of a class of genetic variants in a gene pool, and should not be confused with physically fit meaning biggest, fastest or strongest, which does not necessarily lead to reproductive success.[4] It is not generally used by modern biologists, who use the phrase "natural selection" almost exclusively.

80 posted on 05/09/2009 3:53:00 PM PDT by AndrewC (Metanoia)
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To: AndrewC

OK, so you claim to know what GAs are and how they work, yet you show you really don’t based upon your reasoning above.

No use talking about GAs any more...

So answer me the question: where did Cain’s wife come from? If the Bible is historically inerrant then where did she come from?

Failing to answer that leaves the whole historical inerrancy of the Bible in question, especially about the earliest chapters.


83 posted on 05/09/2009 4:04:21 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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