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Message 16 of 120 (352360)
09-26-2006 11:10 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Albert Godwin
09-25-2006 11:37 AM


Faulty premise
Albert Godwin writes:
If you have a PC virus that mutates, can you force it to evolve an encrypted virus?
And if you can't, will you please stop saying that the whole of those creatures did evolve?
The tacit premise on which you base this seems entirely wrong. You want simulated evolution to achieve a very specific purpose, namely encryption. The idea that evolution is driven to achieve a particular purpose is a teleological assumption.
Evolutionists have rejected such teleological assumptions from the beginning. This type of criticism of evolution is badly misconceived.

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