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Made by Mammals

Biomorphs

By . 2009. Made by Mammals.

“Historically, religion aspires to explain our own existence and the nature of the universe in which we find ourselves. In this role it is now completely superseded by science.”
Richard Dawkins

The image shows two biomorphs created by the Blind Watchmaker applet, a computer program designed by Richard Dawkins that simulates artificial selection (similar to natural selection) – a reminder that humans and bats share the same 25 million greats grandparents:

http://physics.syr.edu/courses/mirror/biomorph/

Comments (2)

1. Ryan

I find it ironic that he created a program to disprove a creator.

posted on November 12, 2010
2. Aaron

@ Ryan:

The purpose of this is to refute the argument that an intelligent agency is required to create - from the top-down - complex, functioning systems. It doesn’t “disprove” the existence of anything, but it does demolish the argument from design for a creative agency.

posted on February 12, 2011

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