> >SJ>Kelly's book "Out of Control" is subtitled "The New Biology of Machines".
> >>It is about *artificial* life and deals extensively with computer
> simulations
> >>of evolution, which is after all what this thread started by Wesley was
> >>about.
> >>
> >>The book was urged on me by a former Reflectorite who was atheist
> evolutionist
> >>as evidence for evolution. I was surprised when I read it how
> devastating it
> >>is *against* Darwinism!
>
> >CC>The fact that he made such a mistake as he did in the passage you so
> >>blindly quoted
>
>I actually *have* the book in front of me and Chris can't even find his
>copy, yet Chris just
>*asserts* I have "blindly quoted" it, because he doesn't agree with it!
>
>Maybe when Chris does locate his copy he can read it and get back with
>*evidence* that I
>have "blindly quoted" it?
Chris
I meant that you blindly quoted it without checking to see if the passage
you quoted was in fact *true*. Since several instances of speciation have
been recorded (and a few have been discussed on this list), it's simply
empirically false.
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