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Re: Darwinism is incomplete
February 1, 2009
by Anonymous,
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The fallacy in this argument is that to solve an extremal problem you ate trying to find the
best, locally or globally, so have to explore all possibilities. Darwinism does not say that
all possible mutations have been explored either globally or locally, only that then organism evolves to a little bit better (as judged at the time). The calculation on a computer in terms of minimization problem would be to move down the slope, that is all, and takes hardly any time at all on a computer. You have also missed the point of parallel processing.