From Answers in Genesis, there's a 'counter-program' and tutorial in response to Dawkins' silly "Methinks it is like a weasel" program. This is from the introduction to the tutorial:
The astronomer, Fred Hoyle said the probability of the formation of just one of the many proteins on which life depends is comparable to that of the solar system packed full of blind people randomly shuffling Rubik's cubes all arriving at the solution at the same time. [see ref] . In response to statements like that, evolutionists try to avoid the issue by breaking evolutionary stages down into small and gradual steps. Richard Dawkins is a prominent atheist and author of the book, The Blind Watchmaker, [see ref]. Dawkins puts forward the idea that cumulative selection is able to produce complex proteins (such as haemoglobin), which are obviously too improbable to arise in a single step. Dawkins wrote a computer program to demonstrate cumulative selection and mentions this program in his book. The program would select a random sequence of letters and gradually mutate this sequence until it matched a phrase that Dawkins selected from Shakespeare's Hamlet. However as you read this tutorial you will see that when Dawkins' program is correctly understood, it not only fails to provide any real support for molecules-to-man evolution, it can in fact, be used to demonstrate problems with the theory of evolution.
Also see this.
Wednesday, August 7, 2002
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