"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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