In Message 25 I asked these questions which you did not answer.
Why do you think Percy didn't answer? I can see his reply at
Message 29 he addresses all of your questions apart from the rather bizarre one about DNA repair. In fact since this is the very message you replied to to ask these questions one is left wondering WTF?
All you needed to do was run the program with the conditions you wanted and you would have been able to quantitate the frequency of the different mutational outcomes, Percy gave you clear advice as to how to distinguish those outcomes.
Why do you think Percy should go to the trouble of running it to get those answers for you when the program is there for you to run yourself?
Peter Marshal is an evolutionist.
He really isn't in any sense that anyone but you would recognise. Intelligent design proponents are not generally considered to be evolutionists.
Your program is nothing like His program as it cannot create information.
His program can create information, it just can't do what he suggests it should be able if random mutation and natural selection worked, but that is because his program models those processes in a ridiculous way. For example there is only one sequence every generation so obviously any deleterious mutation represents the end of the entire chain, in Percy's model there are multiple offspring even if any sequence with a deleterious mutation is weeded out there is still a good chance of having sufficient viable sequences for further generations to come from. Perry's program essentially has no selection in it at all, it says it does but what he calls selection has nothing to do with how natural selection works.
As an example of how Marshall's program
can create new meaning I just ran it and my first mutation produced this ...
quote:
The quick brown fox jumpedDover the lazy dog
I added the bolding but to anyone capable of reading the fnords there's some pretty clear meaning there about the coherence of ID and creationist arguments.
Can you explain what information your program computes to generate the results produced?
Percy has given you the raw materials to work this out but I'll give you my take. The information is produced by random mutation of the sequence, as indeed it is in Marshall's program, but what allows for the accumulation of information is the selective process which is a context sensitive environmental factor, in this case the desired target sequence that the user defines but in the case of biological evolution the environment that the organism is in.
TTFN,
WK