Often portrayed as a simple Darwinian development, it was recently admitted at Nature to be a puzzle.
Tag: Jonathan Witt
From Salvo 58: Whatever happened to the Dawkins’s Weasel program that could randomly produce meaningful sentences, using natural selection?
Jonathan Witt: Some 30-plus years on, we’re still waiting.
New book focuses on animal intelligence as not product of pure randomness
“[H]ow did these embedded programs arise in the history of life? There’s the problem for evolutionists. “Specified complexity, irreducible complexity, and the Cambrian explosion are inexplicable from a Darwinian viewpoint,” comments Baylor University computer engineer and intelligent design theorist Robert J. Marks. “In this book, Cassell masterfully adds animal algorithms to the list.”
Jonathan Witt: Why is common descent a better explanation for the history of life than common design?
It’s one of those questions that many never ask because they are so used to hearing the Correct Answer that no other answers surface. And they would not, of course, know objections to the Correct Answer.