Richard Dawkin's big blunder

[Mister Agenda]

So don't just simulate evolution (all of it from the first cell, apparently, which we don't yet have the computing power for), get the same results with a different reproductive environment? If that actually happened it would prove that not only is evolution guided, so are simulations of it. If the reproductive environment is random, getting similar results is not to be expected. Life can't exist in 99.99999% of the universe, I expect you would agree to the parameters of reproductive environments being limited to what can reasonably be found on a planet we would expect to be able to harbor life. The simulation would involve a random simulated planet generator, and starting with a simulated imperfect yet high fidelity self-replicating cell.

We're at least decades from a computer capable of simulating millions of years of evolution in a matter of months, but when we are, do you think the simulated cell will not evolve into more complex forms in a less earthlike environment because 'not guided'? What if we ran a million simulations of different simulated worlds and got complex life on 1% of them...that would falsify your claim, wouldn't it?