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by David Turell , Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 20:55 (5853 days ago) @ David Turell

No one has commented on this new discovery about evolution. What is startling to me is the implication of pre-planning and what the article says about the authors reaction to their discovery. They are obviously startled also and have to put in the following disclaimers about ID: - "In this paper, we present what is ostensibly the first quantitative experimental evidence, since Wallace's original proposal, that nature employs evolutionary control strategies to maximize the fitness of biological networks," Chakrabarti said. "Control theory offers a direct explanation for an otherwise perplexing observation and indicates that evolution is operating according to principles that every engineer knows." - The scientists do not know how the cellular machinery guiding this process may have originated, but they emphatically said it does not buttress the case for intelligent design, a controversial notion that posits the existence of a creator responsible for complexity in nature. - Chakrabarti said that one of the aims of modern evolutionary theory is to identify principles of self-organization that can accelerate the generation of complex biological structures. "Such principles are fully consistent with the principles of natural selection. Biological change is always driven by random mutation and selection, but at certain pivotal junctures in evolutionary history, such random processes can create structures capable of steering subsequent evolution toward greater sophistication and complexity." - Stated as a result of their faith in science and pure conjecture and speculation, without a shred of evidence to support this view.