Thread: My Evolution By Natural Selection Program

I'm a software developer and was bored over the weekend, so I wrote this program. http://rakandachil.bounceme.net/Evol...Program_V4.exe

If anyone is familiar with Richard Dawkins' program, this will be familiar, you enter a string (letters and basic punctuation) and then it uses a mutation rate to determine how many iterations through selecting the most "fit" string before it reaches the string you enter.

There is also a Boeing 747 mode which is sarcastic for what creationists say evolution is (it's like a tornado in a junk yard randomly creating a Boeing 747). So this mode the mutation rate doesn't matter.

Anyway, some fun for people who are bored.

PS. requires .net framework 2.0, also it's an exe file, but I swear on my lack of a god, it's not a virus

If it's not God inspired Im not touching it.

Pretty sweet man. I haven't messed around with Dawkins' version but yours is pretty neat. It took me a little bit to figure out what the 747 part of it was until I figured out the whole sarcasm part of it. Good job.

It took 7068 iterations to get to "creationists are idiots"

20468 Interations for the word "the" in 747 mode. 1667 for Natural Selection. So I guess the Creationists are right. It's not very likely that a 747 could randomly piece together. Natural Selection is much more

I tried the word 'carrot' in 747 mode, I stopped it after 27,000,000 iterations.

I'm currently doing the whole first chapter of my new book with a .02% mutation rate; I'm guessing about a week to complete, we'll see.

No one else is going to try this? By the way, don't put in any apostrophes. It doesn't work.

I'm not sure why this program is interesting or entertaining in any way?

Who moves these threads? This should have at least gone in the science section. It's just as fair to have it in the religion section though because they talk about the diversity of life all the time! They say that evolution is a religion as well. So do they want to exclude other religions from the religion forum?