Re: Lecture of the Week: Part I: Is Evolution Sufficient?

Wirt Atmar wrote:


But can evolution design anything of quality in any reasonable time? The
common perception is that the evolutionary process is both
excruciatingly slow and random. Engineers are not only an impatient
bunch, they're picky about the quality of their solutions.

If by reasonable time you mean an interval roughly equal to a human
lifetime, no. Evolution has never worked over a reasonable time. As Carl
Sagan would say, it required billyuns and billyuns of years to produce us.

Bob Kolker


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