Cybernetic simulations show Darwinian processes don't produce order

From EvoWiki

Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links

Claim

Darwinians and Neo-Darwinians have long maintained that randomness, plus long time spans, plus natural selection would (together) do the trick in making specific codes and molecules. However, recent progress in cybernetics has shown by simulation experiments that order sequences, specificity and coding cannot be extracted from randomness on the basis of the Darwinian postulates.

Source

Wilder-Smith, A.E., 1970. The Creation of Life, A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution. Harold Shaw Publishers, Wheaton, IL, pg. 116.]

Responses

1. 1970 is hardly 'recent'. The Ev program, by Thomas Schneider, shows exactly how a cybernetic simulation of genetic control systems produces 'order' as measured using Shannon information theory. The paper and the program are available at http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/paper/ev/
2. Avida (http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/) does exactly that, very efficiently and repeatably, and has been doing so for many researchers over several years. They have found, using Avida, several new techniques in mathematics and industrial design.
3. add more responses

Fallacies contained in this claim

• Suppressed Evidence
• add fallacies

External Links

• National Science Foundation, 2003. Artificial Life Experiments Show How Complex Functions Can Evolve. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030508075843.htm