Re: CSI, GAs, etc.

From: Mark Isaak (atta@best.com)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 21:45:32 EDT

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    "Paul Nelson" <pnelson2@ix.netcom.com> wrote [much snipped]:
    >... [A] bright undergraduate came up after
    >the talk and said, "Dr. Nelson, you've just GOT to
    >go on the net and play Conway's 'Game of Life' --
    >that will answer all the questions you have about
    >natural selection!" I listened as this young man
    >described the remarkable, organismal-appearing
    >patterns that arise from what he called "a few
    >simple rules."
    >
    >Interesting, I replied. But then there's Conway.
    >Right?
    >
    >All evolutionary algorithms that we know have at least
    >one author, or intelligent designer.

    Would you say, then, that Darwinian evolution looks designed?
    Why or why not?

    - Mark Isaak



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