The cartoon called Evolution

Having failed repeatedly to demonstrate even the possibility of evolution in Origin of Life' experiments, evolutionists have now taken to 'proving' evolution with computer programs.

Quotes and comments;

1. “With a grant from the National Science Foundation, a group is adapting a research platform called Avida to enable undergraduates to watch digital organisms called Avideans develop complex functions through replication, mutation, and natural selection.” According to Robert Pennock, this computer program “lets students see that evolution works as advertised” and is a good way to teach about science, states another proponent of Avida.

- My comments will be of a general nature; for a technical critique see the link at Note #1.

- I consider this kind of animation evolution to be the most pernicious attack on the idea of creation. In my opinion this program is bogus, and in no way shows students what has happened during the history of earth. It does not show how living forms emerged. It only claims to do these things. These animated versions of evolution are pure Hollywood.

- the people who put out these programs are either deluded in what they imagine they've done, or they think students are too clueless to figure out the errors in the programs. (e.g. One gross error is that these are programs designed by intelligent beings to deceive people into imaging they are seeing some replication of a supposed process called evolution. They are designed to have certain results occur. They do not replicate reality.)

- these animation programs are a house of cards; impressive, but paper thin. At the slightest touch of logic they collapse. They are programs designed to deceive people. They're as true to life as Mickey Mouse. What we see in them writ large is the psychology of self-deception. (i.e. if we read them in the best possible light.) As the cartoon is designed to amuse, these evolutionary cartoons are meant to deceive. They're as neutral as a road runner cartoon. They're wish fulfillment on parade. I get the impression this is supposed to be the big knock out punch meant to flatten all anti-evolutionary critics. (Or to at least so confuse people that they become uncritical.)

- this amounts to fabricating evidence. Almost no one who sees these programs is in any position to analyze them skillfully. (And you'll notice that they escape almost all critique from fellow evolutionists.) This is like playing poker with a card up your sleeve. It's very difficult for people to see the errors (and biases) embedded into these programs. I consider them pernicious in the extreme.

- even if these programs were designed properly (which they're not) they wouldn't prove that they had anything to do with reality. You can build a million and one models of X, but this doesn't mean even one of them in any real way replicates X. (Even if the model did replicate reality, which I assume is impossible, it seems to me that what you would have proven would be that some Intelligent being or beings designed the code behind the universe :=)

- the story (and film) 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' had a nice 'Hollywood' ending; but It's hard to see how we can undo the harm done by these animations of evolution. (Perhaps I'm taking them too seriously... but I've seen all kinds of people utterly taken in by them.) This is a kind of magic being engaged in; doing the hard work of science through the magic tricks of computer animation. In my view Darwinism has been utterly falsified as a theory... only in the make believe world of computer graphics does it have a chance of enchanting and deceiving people.

- I guess Darwin is the old sorcerer; but in this case the young magicians don't think the old guy has got it anymore. He can't get the job done anymore so he needs some new virtual magic.

Notes;
1. Evaluation of neo-Darwinian Theory using the Avida Platform - Royal Truman (Part 1.)
2. We need more people with expertise in this field to take a critical look at what is going on.
3. One example of how this cartoon model of science works. In this case the 'Niklas' computer model. Based on its results (is that the word?)
"The startling possibility is that evolution has found essentially all the locally optimal ways of being a terrestrial plant (ignoring the fine morphology associated with leaves, reproductive organs, roots, etc., as well as major modifications in the way living plants grow and reproduce compared with these early plants), and that it explored the morphogenetic space in just about one geological period. The Niklas study opens up the possibility that evolution is able to find essentially all the locally optimal morphologies consistent with a given underlying developmental system on geological timescales. That is, all the processes associated with variation (point mutation, recombination, hybridization, gene conversion, insertion and deletion, post-transcriptional changes in mRNA processing, etc.) are able to effectively explore fitness landscapes on geological timescales; evolution is able solve [sic] the np-hard problem of exploring the rich combinatorial potential embedded in the genome in the order of 10-20 million years."
- This is an example of the kind of cartoon logic students are now being subjected to. [From an article by Charles Marshall explaining the so called Cambrian explosion.] You tell me how many people are capable of analyzing this verbiage. Evolutionists have given up trying to prove e. in the real world; they're now drawing up scenarios (often based on computer programs) so obscurantist that no one will be able to understand them. If any declines to believe such scenarios, they will be patted on the head and told, ''you just don't understand... so what can I say?" - reference; Charles R. Marshall, “Explaining the Cambrian ‘Explosion’ of Animals,” Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 34 (Volume publication date May 2006)
4. I see these programs as evidence materialists can't answer critiques of evolution, and that they realize it's been falsified as science.
5. These animated evolution programs are as close to reality as the Scopes trial movie, 'Inherit the wind'. The movie is a total travesty... and the evolutionary priesthood still endorses it... just like they do the lie of evolution.