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I guess my thinking was that in other areas of science you actually have the opportunity to create experiments that replicate the situation under consideration. You can therefore make direct predictions on the outcome of specific directly relevant experiments.
There have been experiments done using short-lived organisms. For
example, lactose utilization in bacteria and ethanol tolerance in fruit flies. I gather that the results agreed nicely with the predictions of the evolution model.
The creos will no doubt find ways to cavil about these.
In my opinion, since the evolutionary algorithm is validated by these experiments, it is now up to the creos to show in detail how the algorithm is invalid for other organisms and on other time scales if they want to dispute these results.
Of course, even if they can do so, they still need to show positive evidence for their own model.
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