Most supporters of evolution, go bonkers when you even bring up the subject of "intelligent design", let alone special creation. Yet, what are scientists doing to try & prove evolution. Using "intelligently designed robots" to prove evolution. Do they not get that what they are doing is proving that we didn't just come about by chance.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, the sort you'd store soup in.
It hardly looks like it, but the two swimming robots were set loose in the little pool to study evolution, acting out predator-prey encounters from roughly 540 million years ago.
The prey robot, dubbed Preyro, can simulate evolution.
This is not like robot evolution in the "Terminator" movie sense of machines turning on their human masters. Instead, Vassar biology and cognitive science professor John Long and his students can make changes to the tail of Preyro to see which designs help it avoid the predator robot.
"We're applying selection," Long explains, "just like natural selection."
Did you get that, the robot fish doesn't automaticly evolve. Their creators make the changes. They don't happen merely by chance. They are made based on observations by the creators of what is going on to see what works & what doesn't. In other words, intelligent design.
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