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- From: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.174636.11789@aurora.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:46:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.172028.9545@aurora.com> <uRw9TB11w165w@kalki33>
- Reply-To: isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak)
- Organization: The Aurora Group
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- In article <uRw9TB11w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >isaak@aurora.com (Mark Isaak) writes:
- >
- >> In article <uVF4TB6w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >> >Yes, we agree that if matter is somehow manipulated under the control of
- >> >a sufficiently advanced computer program . . . then the body of a living
- >> >organism can be formed out of simple materials.
- >> >But the best computer in the universe will do nothing without being
- >> >programmed, . . .
- >>
- >> Then, do you believe that the conditions within the Tierra simulation
- >> were more complex (i.e., had a higher information content) than the
- >> conditions on a primordial Earth? You seem to have a great deal more
- >> respect for a single programmer's ability than I do!
- >
- >Perhaps you have not met the programmer who designed your brain.
-
- The Tierra simulation shows that, given some relatively simple initial
- conditions, the only manipulations needed to produce life are random.
- Yes, I have met Random.
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- Mark Isaak "Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every
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