No evolutionary algorithm is superior to a random search. Yet many animals catch prey with what appears to be a random walk through a noisy environment. How do they do it?
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Synthetic geneticist Craig Venter told a packed audience in Dublin that life is DNA-software-driven machinery that operates protein robots.
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With atomic force microscopy, scientists have resolved some features down to 5 angstroms. A striking projection map shows the rotor c-rings arranged in tissue with an uncanny resemblance to gears.
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Jefferson argued for his belief in a pervasive "design" behind nature, "without appeal to revelation" -- that is, from a scientific not a religious perspective.
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This sounds very much like computer programming, where options are programmed into the code, but the code is not itself making the decisions.
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