Evolving watches

Via Ensign Steve, Dean of Star Trek Studies at Freethought Forum, some cool YouTube videos of computer simulations from a scientist that demonstrate how evolution works and address creationist misconceptions. Links to the Mathlab code used are supplied on the Youtube page:

How evolution really works



Evolution is a blind watchmaker


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In the linked forum thread about the videos, it seemed clear to me that some people misunderstood what the author is demonstrating in the latter video.

The creationist analogy of a watch, clearly designed, to a living organism is nonsense because a real watch lacks many aspects of organisms that evolutionary theory is premised on.

So the video's author first gives the elements of the watch analogy the qualities necessary to make it a working analogy, then shows how, given these qualities, watches would evolve over time