"well "checking for fitness" would be reproduction of successful mutations and no or less reproduction of less successfull ones." - gfactor
Certainly, but how would "fitness check" be performed in a lifeless world (i.e., before the first life)?
Your complaint, after all, was that the author of this math proof (Watson), didn't take into account a "fitness test".
I've yet to seen it explained how such a fitness test could be injected into a lifeless system randomly/naturally (i.e. without any form of Intelligent Intervention). Didn't you initially (Post #12) say that you wanted the monkeys' output compared to a dictionary, with the matching words kept and the others omitted?
it would be injected when first reproduction started, no matter how simple. if thats all that's missing from the evolution puzzle, i'm quite satisfied, for its a HUGE question.