From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3f00360f.2978132{at}216.144.1.254...

> Yes - a computer virus was designed by a programmer with a purpose.

Because it's the only way for a program to function, it must have a purpose?

> Evolution employs a totally different strategy. In evolution, you perform
> random, small modification to all the properties of an object. Then you
> see what happens.
>
> If the modifications benefit the organism and are handed down to the next
> generation, then the organism prospers. Life has no purpose!

If there is no purpose, then why does live evolve but not devolve? Strictly
speaking, random change should result in no change in average evolutionary
direction, yet life seems to be headed in a direction.

Geo.

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