(September 12, 2013 at 9:34 am)Jiggerj Wrote: I knew this topic would go here. It was just easier to write my thread the way I did and wait for this reply. If all that information wasn't in the first cell, then it at least had some kind of programming on learning how to adapt in the future to any and all environments.
The first processor that used logic gates to compute in binary had everything it needed to power today's most demanding applications. But those processors aren't sophisticated enough to be used as a support module in a Commodore 64, much less a modern computer. Not being complex is very different from having the potential to be complex.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
