Evolution impossible as cannot apply meaning to code

Read it more carefully next time. Dawkins' ENTIRE POINT is that "random typing" is an incorrect, insufficient, and misguided metaphor for evolutionary change, and lacks at least two necessary features: replication and selection.I can't believe you actually read the book, and missed this. No doubt you're relying on second-hand accounts of what Dawkins said.Edited by Zhimbo, : format fix.

Well, yeah - it just doesn't have the power of natural selection for evolution is the point Dawkins is making.But I don't think you can actually do the math for monkeys, if we want to get really pedantic. The problem is that monkeys are non-random typers, and I don't think their typing style is sufficiently characterized to do that math.They tend to hit nearby clusters of keys on a QWERTY keyboard, for example.Also, they'll poop on the keyboards, mucking them up.At this point, Shakespeare probably becomes impossible, although the complete "Mission Earth" series by L. Ron Hubbard is still easily in reach.Edited by Zhimbo, : No reason given.