>Robert writes:
>
><<Glenn's screen creatures have no notion of physically realistic heredity
>and his simulation is, for that reason, biologically meaningless.>>
>
>This would be true even if the code had been written correctly. As Robert
>earlier pointed out, one can construct a program built on any set of
>assumptions. This is what makes computer simulations of such limited value.
No, this is a strength not a weakness. Poor interpretations, misunderstandings
and misrepresentations are the bane of computer simulations. I don't think
Glenn is guilty of any of these.
>Nosehairs anyone?
Forget nosehairs, how about a computer simulation of your model of
creation?
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"I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,
044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the
Universe and the same number of electrons." Arthur Stanley Eddington
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