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Have you read the program's code? It is anything but simplistic. The program incorporates all of the primary functions and methods and evolution. Read through the code, you might then realise how it actually functions. The simplest explanation I could give would be is to watch Code Bullet's...

Did you even read the post I wrote responding to you?

I feel like this discussion has hit a blockade in which both sides have just started chasing a tangent. I think that we need to bring this discussion back to the main issue, is evolution possible? From what I can see our Christian friend seems to think that there is a barrier to evolution's...

Thanks for the advice buddy! I'll fix up the OP when I can.

No. Not at all... It simulates natural selection the healthier (closer to "Fifty"), the more likely to reproduce.

I will hone in on this, your point seems to rest on this. It doesn't. The purpose of this thread is to demonstrate that randomness and evolution are not the same. A common creationist argument is "How could a single cell randomly become a horse at the snap of a finger?". The point of this is to...

No... no... and no... You clearly didn't read the script and/or don't know how to program.

Second script. Ok. I'll try to explain it. So pretend it randomly generates the string "Fargi". It would get scored higher because the F makes it more similar to "Fifty". The next generation might randomly generate "Fafgi", that is closer to "Fifty", so it would be scored higher, meaning that...

UPDATE: I had to remove the song from the video because it was copyright claimed (ineligibly given that the band who wrote the song didn't even claim it, it was an unaffiliated production company that doesn't exist. YouTube copyright is truly broken.) I will put in Hathor Hymnal instead.

I screwed up a bit with the wording in that. I mean that doesn't look like it did on my screen, because on my screen the text was flying across at insane speeds. I was saying that the FPS of my recording couldn't truly capture the speed of the text moving. You will notice that the text moved at...

Hmm... my simulation never actually started with the string "Fifty". If you take a look at the script you can confirm that. When testing it I had a wide variety of starting strings, some of which only resulted in one hundred iterations. If it seemed to have started with a string close to "Fifty"...

Hello! I've been working on other things for a few months. Some of you may remember me from my notorious thread asking Christians whether or not they believe in evolution. I am not here to deconvert you. There is no possible way for me to convince you of anything because you will simply dismiss...

That is a brutal misunderstanding of how it works. We even have evolution simulations. They work. Let me explain how it works, once again, if you have a detrimental mutation, you may die earlier, leading to you not breeding, and not passing on your genes. If you have a beneficial mutation, you...

Why do people believe in God? That is simple, they don't want to die. Understandable, I don't want to die either. Nobody wants their loved ones or themselves to die. And wouldn't choosing to live a long kind and meaningful life without the incentive of a reward be much more meaningful than doing...

It amuses me when the creationists here say there is no evidence for evolution and ignore any evidence for evolution that is presented to them.

This thread is getting pretty clogged with misunderstandings so far, and it is quite annoying, so I will clear up some main misconceptions. Natural selection: It is the process of more success in mating leading to beneficial genes being passed on more often. This is the theory of evolution...

You'll be correct about our creationist friend. If they respond in the next 42 years (I got the dolphin joke in your signature).

No but it is heavily implied. Also, are you going to respond to my previous post? I'll quote it here for convenience, but it seems to have stumped you.

Have you considered that it could be describing God guiding an evolutionary process? Not that it is, or that "God" is real. But, the Bible shouldn't be used as a source as I have previously demonstrated.

Psalm 104:5 - "He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." [The Earth moves in many ways, around the Sun, through the Milky Way, etc.] Ecclesiastes 1:5 - "The Sun rises and the Sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises." (From the NIV Bible) [The Sun doesn't revolve around...