Blind Watchmaker & Evolving Clocks

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Wow. Okay, this video on how evolution works (the argument is that you can tell something was "designed" if it's parts would not work by themselves. The metaphor is that of life as a clock--it's parts do nothing until they're put together, and then they tell time. The argument is that something so complex could not come together by accident to form a clock. Yet evolution argues just that: that the parts of a clock, if alive, could come together to create a timepiece). This video is longish and a bit complex, but I happen to think it's amazing--or rather, what this guy did, his computer-science project on evolution, was amazing. The results are really cool.

Blind Watchmaker

Warning: This is an "instructional" rather than entertainment style video. There are a lot of words on screen explaining things, usually at length, and they don't stay on screen for long. So you may find yourself needing to pause the video so you can read what it's saying.

I happen to really love the section where he points out that, in one of the simulations, there is such fast change that the "fossil record" wouldn't show it

 

[Stella_Omega]

pretty clear and understandable, too.

I couldn't stop myself from commenting...

 

[rgraham666]

Very interesting. I'll be coming back after I've thought about it a bit.