[Heartlander]

DNA is like a computer program. There are variables that you can plug into the program but they are still under the constraints of the program.

If you use MS Windows long enough, even after all the crashes, and fatal errors, it will not become UNIX.

[Dominic Harr]

There are variables that you can plug into the program but they are still under the constraints of the program.

Adaption is actually changing something fundamental about the species -- like increased resistance to a specific bug spray.

And if you change Windows enough, patch it enough, you do end up with a fundamentally different piece of software.

In fact, software is a perfect example of 'adaption'. Software like Windows has 'evolved' thru many, many small adaptions.

Your example proves my point.