I think I would agree here. I think I would change ... The process of evolution created the animals, both their bodies and their habits ... to read: ... It is likely that the process of evolution created the animals, both their bodies and their habits ... I'm sorry, but even that suggestions that there is one process of evolution (false) and that it consciously acted (false). Evolutionary processes include selection and random drift.
I would suggest wording more like
It is likely that both the bodies and the habits of animals are the outcome of evolutionary processes ...
There is a building in Melbourne, "Melbourne Central". While it was a-building, they had a sign on it "The Spirit of Evolution". Doubly funny, really, because the "spirit" of evolution is death, disease, and disaster, and I'm sure they didn't want people thinking _that_ about their building!
Computer "experiments" in evolution always tend to look highly contrived.
The spider and its silk were not designed by any being. The process of evolution created the animals, both their bodies and their habits. Evolution is a very powerful process. Think of the great variety of wild plants and animals on the earth. All of them were created by evolution. --------- Note that we don't claim anything about "evolution being a designer". But you DO claim that evolution is a creater.
The key idea in Darwinian evolution, as I understand it, is the "creative power" of selection, that is, animals that don't function don't breed, so that anything we see around us _has_ to be something that can function well enough to make a living, or it wouldn't be here. The main evidences for evolution are due to its limitations, not its powers: basically, you have to work with what you've got, "evolution" doesn't have the power to step in and make arbitrary patches. It's the _panda's_ clumsy thumb, not ours, that is persausive of evolution. It's the lingering bugs in Squeak that prove it wasn't written by God. A really convincing evolution simulation should illustrate something it _can't_ do.
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