Iain,
Is evolution, in your opinion, a METHOD? Or is evolution a theory or a fact of natural history...?
You called 'evolution' (in your words, not from a children's book): "God's method of creation." Should we take you at your word or will you step back from it?
This is obviously a sensitive topic as you've threatened to 'expel' me from your constellation of voices over it!
To me it is still astonishing that you view computer programs as 'evolving,' especially since you are a programmer and actively 'program' computers. Dave Wallace showed me the nuanced meaning of 'computer evolution,' though regress in that realm ALWAYS returns to human choice and action.
My vocabulary is already re-configured so that I require 'evolution' only rarely when speaking about purely biological or natural things. Yet in the places you are using it, the meaning of the word 'evolution' is already over-used and often abused, and imo outdated, obsolete (while people echo it out of force of habit).
Evolution: METHOD or something else?
May the peace be with you,
G.A.
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Received on Fri Aug 1 14:36:47 2008
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