Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Was Darwin Wrong?

Was Charles Darwin Wrong on his theory of evolution? There have been many articles and a sudden spring of news about this. A few to mention would be a recent National Geographic Magazine issue and a Newspaper –‘Times of India’ article about the same. The latter mentions that there cannot be an "intellectual one" behind the scene and our world cannot be automated because we see evolution everywhere.

The world's diverse life forms are a result of evolution whose evidence dates back to the first living species. True enough the life forms of the world are going through evolution. We see it in every life form in different degrees. But that really put an end to the concept of an “intellectual one” who’s pre-programmed everything? Well, the answer is No. As mentioned in my previous posts, the one that talks about a probabilistic world is the key to the answer. If a program can be based on probability in order to make an output random yet ordered then there can be an Algorithm which governs the evolution of different species over time.

Genetic Algorithms: An algorithm designed to evolve the ‘fittest’ from a given set of data. This algorithm takes a set of data and evaluates them based on a fitness parameters
And after each cycle the winner replaces the weak ones. The algorithm is a part of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) and is in wide use in various applications.

Now if this algorithm was implemented with appropriate parameters in this probabilistic world, what we would have today is a world of Evolution which is exactly what Charles Darwin has discovered.

So Charles Darwin was not wrong , but at the same time the concept of evolution does not rule out the possibility of an ‘Intelligent Being’ designing a probabilistic world with genetic algorithm as an integral part of it.

As you would have noticed this is just another connection to the Grand Unification Theory. This puzzle does make more sense now. Isn’t it?

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