Artificial Life Experiments Show How Complex Functions Can Evolve

NSF ^ | May 8, 2003 | Staff

[f.Christian]

are you blind -- deaf too !

[donh]

Ok. That means evolutionists won't object when it is posited that God created the universe and God caused life from non-life. You can't object because you just said your theory has nothing to do with those two miracles.

That is correct. When you see a scientific journal article that tries to suggest God couldn't have created life from non-life, please let me know.

[Ten Megaton Solution]

Of course I'm blind. I surf the web with my tongue.

[null and void]

Ummm, I'm assuming your use of "your" is retorical.

I'm agnostic. I just freakin' don't know!

(Although these days I'm more inclined to see His hand in our affairs. Especially compared to the Cliton years...)

[f.Christian]

1M patents ... X's ... 1K $'s = one billion dollars (( every 12 years ))!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Yes, but polls are *statistics* applied on top of the raw data. And unless you're expecting that everyone who is lying, it's the "statistics" that are wrong.

No... it means the method of gathering the data is wrong or biased. For example, on-line polls are unreliable, because they are limited to people who are on-line and inclined to respond to such polls.

And even at its best, statistics doesn't claim to speak with certainty. It claims that its results are probably approximately correct. When the news says that 55% of people believe something, according to a poll, what it actually means that it is 95% likely that 52-58% of people believe something, if the data was collected in an unbiased manner. (And the certainty and range may be adjusted, based on the method used to analyze the data and the sample size.)

[Ten Megaton Solution]

If you're an agnostic, then I clearly couldn't be discussing "your athiesm". You don't have any.

But nice point. I occasionally get sloppy sometimes. Comes from surfing the web with a tongue, I suppose.

[donh]

As I understand the article, simpler functions mutate into more complex functions in the program.

Even the earliest simple A-life: Holland's game of Life, could have been described and implemented as a collection of cells with their own programs. Collections of cells in Life can take on a permanent relationship that looks, to the viewer, like a discrete entity with lifelike features. It was not necessary for the programmer to arrange this--it just happened. Find Holland's game of life on the net somewhere and try it out--I think you'll get the picture quickly enough.

[f.Christian]

dogma > c : a point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds
2 : a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Holland's game of Life,

Minor correction: I think it was John Conway who came up with the Game of Life.

[Quick1]

Do you speak English? Please form a coherent paragraph. has physics // mathematics ever changed Yes, there are lots of theories that have changed or that have been discarded over time, as they are proven wrong. You are confusing the study, observation, and explanation of phenomena (science) with the phenomena itself.

[AndrewC]

You were right!

Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are the guilty parties.

United States Patent	6,368,227
Olson	April 9, 2002

Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Kien T.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Olson; Peter Lowell

[Quick1]

And the proof is in your incoherent posts.

-- and // are not used in proper English.

[Ten Megaton Solution]

dogma - female dog with puppies in Georgia.

[f.Christian]

your science reminds of a macy's recycle shop !

[whattajoke]

Let it be known here and now that Dimensio insists evolution has nothing to say about God's creation of the universe or His bringing forth of life from non-life.

Let it also be known that I, whattajoke, an avowed non-theist, non believer in anything supernatural at all, cannot disagree with your statement. Hey, now you're getting somewhere.

However, there are other competing theories out there now regarding the origins of the universe, the earth, and life, which is all well and good. Lots of good research has been done and it points to boring ol' naturalistic explanations. I can not unequivocably state that God did not create these things. Now that you have your hypothesis (god created the heavens and the earth), I urge you to get to the theory part. hell, that hypothesis has been out there for multiple millenia, but never seems to get past that stage.

Perhaps you're the one to do it. godspeed, Dataman, godspeed.

[null and void]

A patent for an indvidual cost about $5K, for a company it's about $10K.

Plus attorney's costs...

Maybe $250M in revenue/year for the PTO. Pretty much a nothingth of a percent of the Federal Budget.

[f.Christian]

earth mother in inca is potchamama ... how did they know --- potchapappa ! !

[null and void]

Comes from surfing the web with a tongue, I suppose.

You've REALLY got to stop that french web surfing...

[Quick1]

Thanks for proving you have no idea what science is.