Evolution for ID-iots (version 2.0)

For ID-iots
(long version)

This is the output of a program written in VBA that possesses the properties of living systems.
1) The poorer suited a 'bug' is to the environment, the more likely it is to die
2) Reproduction with (random in this case) variation.

The program demonstrates that evolution is a property of life. It is not up for debate, it's a property of life, like nuclei are a property of atoms, mass is a property of matter, charge is a property of electrons, three sides is a property of triangles etc.

This is a different approach from how the biological community demonstrates evolution (from experimental observation of living systems/ biochemistry). While experiment is of course the cornerstone of science, regrettable understanding such demonstrations requires a technical level of understanding that is not essential to understanding the principal of evolution.
Here the properties of living systems are given to a population in a computer program. It is found that the properties of living systems inevitably lead to evolution.

Fossil records, DNA, and detailed mechanism of the causes of reproduction with variation are all very interesting, but are essentially peripheral detail in demonstrating evolution as a property of living systems.

Each bug is made up of about 50 genes. The less suited a bugs' genes are to the environment, the less chance it has of survival. Anyone who survives can breed.

Program written in VBA (an integral part of M$ Excel).
Frame rendering for evolution program done using POV (a free and v. good ray tracer) to do the graphics.
Music a variant on Jean Michelle Jar Oxygenne (I think).
Second theme is a variant on Robert Miles, 'Children'
Wildlife footage 'borrowed' from youtube community with the proverbial 'yoink'.

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[zzyzx0788]

Brilliant video.

And an awesome song to boot

[Nixom1334]

i think this video needs to be dumbed down farther to make sense for creationist

[MethanolCH3OH]

0:16 Some lesser creatures, e.g. the hydra, are considered to be "biologically immortal", i.e. if disease, predation, starvation, and accidents were not a factor, they would live forever.

[tubewatch59]

@lordnimr0d

Saying that "something has been refuted" is in many cases quite uncorrelated with whether it actually has been or not. If you're part of a large group who think alike, and someone in your group claims (without spelling out too many details) that something a much smaller group claimed, has now been refuted, and if as a result a chorus of people from your group agree that such has been refuted, then what are you going to believe? It's just too easy to assume it has been refuted!

[mrslovakkid]

What computer program is this?

[MGsven]

good vid thunder, im sure even id iots will get it

[489thcorsica]

Evolution is life. Evolution is the sole characteristic that distinguishes living from non-living matter. Life is simply matter that evolves. Search for "Life is evolution."

[atheistram]

@zzyzx0788 If the environment is better for lizards than bears, then yes over millions of years.

[jamma246]

Nice video. Technically, the intrinsic properties aren't quite right though. You need to link the variations to them being passed to the next generation somehow. If the third property is that "creatures have variations, and to an extent, these variations are passed down to their children after reproduction" then indeed evolution is a trivial result which is unarguably true.

[tubewatch59]

@CauchySchwarz

I support all further scientific research into origins, in an attempt to understand how natural processes could be capable of originating it.

If I'm right, we'll continue to lack such mechanisms (while furthering our understanding of why such is the case).

If I'm wrong, then science will uncover such natural processes. The ones suggested so far have come up short, for the various reasons described earlier.

On with the research, may the correct viewpoint win out.