• Question: do you beleve the religious views of evalution?

    Asked by whkevandcam to Anil, Blanka, Cees, Emma, Mike on 2 Jul 2012. This question was also asked by whdavandbeat, whjamandellie, whlara.
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      Michael Cook answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      I definitely believe that the theory of evolution is correct. You can still believe in evolution and be religious though! Lots of people see evolution as just another amazing part of the world.

      Evolution is a really amazing idea. We use it in computing to inspire a lot of ways of solving problems, too.

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      Emma Trantham answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      Yup I believe in evolution – I’ve actually seen it happen with the bacteria in my lab! (Bacteria multiply really quickly so we can see many generations in a short period of time)

      Some religious viewpoints do support evolution – as Mike said, you can believe in evolution and still believe in a god.

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    Mike commented on :

    Wow, you can actually watch bacteria evolve! That’s amazing, I’d never considered that before.

    Obviously it’s a bit artificial in a computational environment, but ANGELINA uses natural selection to pick the best games, and then ‘breeds’ games together to make better ones. Sort of like animals in the real world!