RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 23, 2015 at 8:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 8:49 pm by Heywood.)
(January 23, 2015 at 8:38 pm)rasetsu Wrote:(January 23, 2015 at 7:46 pm)Heywood Wrote: Simulations of biological evolution, such as the spider sim are real examples of evolution. What is evolving is variables in a computer. The simulation of biological evolution occurs when artwork and the motion/action thereof is directed by those actually evolved variables.
Because you say so, right? No, simulations are models of the real thing and require intelligence to interpret as models. Without the interpretation, they are just bits.
And it is not evolution because you say it is not? Look if we are to have this discussion we have to agree what is evolution and what isn't. Once we agree on that we can look at something and if it agrees with our definition of evolution then it is an example of evolution.
This is the definition of evolution I presented. Do you find it unreasonable? Nobody seemed to object to it.
(January 17, 2015 at 1:48 pm)Heywood Wrote: I would define evolution as follows:
Evolution is a process whereby changes in the heritable traits which reside in a given population accumulate through a selection mechanism over successive generations. The accumulation of these changes can result in an increase or decrease in one or more of the following: complexity, diversity, and knowledge.
Key attributes of evolution:
replication
heritable traits
change
selection
Note to Surgenator.....see how I claimed a long time ago that evolution is a process?
