I am thus undoubtedly unable to disabuse him of it, as I am his touching faith in the evolutionary scenario. I quoted them verbatim. Quoting Kurt on this point was not Wise. I've had computer cowboy friends wax eloquent about them. But I still fail to see how bytes in boxes are in any way similar to genes in nature, and how the numerous assumptions inherent in any simulation program make them useful for determining what actually happens in the real world, where things not only do not run smoothly, they are actually hostile.
Love is blind.