Algorithmic Inelegance

 
I've both praised SEED magazine and tried to bury it [SEED and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - I Take Back My Praise]. This is one of those times when, unlike Mark Anthony, my main goal is to praise Caesar. Caesar in this case is PZ Myers who shows us month after month that there can be real science in SEED magazine.

This month's column is about development in fruit flies. At least that's what it looks like on the surface. The take-home message is telegraphed in the title of the article and the subheading ...

Algorithmic Inelegance

Complexity in living things is a product of the lack of direction in the evolutionary processes, of the accumulation of fortuitous accidents, rather than the product of design.

Bravo PZ! Life isn't designed. It isn't designed by God the intelligent designer and it isn't designed by Richard Dawkins natural selection. It's called Evolution by Accident.

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