What if nature is simply part of the universe, rather than a simulation of it?

And are those laws written in some language?

If "nature" is really just a computer running a simulation that we live inside

Then what is it simulating?

That's a feature, not a bug.

Also, nature doesn't have to solve the Napier-Stokes equation. Unless you take the resulting arrangement of stuff as a solution.

Or P=0.

So --i still decrements i? Can I get an Amen!!

Anything below a leading "--" is a sig.

Four. There are four shades of gray!

Can Raskolnikov haz rubles?

The case has to be prosecuted by the first officer, no one else? Or else the defendant is automatically convicted?

The judge said that if Riker didn't prosecute the case, then she would render summary judgement against Data.

Actually, that isn't my point. In mathematical terms, you would not only have to reproduce the initial conditions using species from three billion years ago, but you would also have to reproduce the boundary conditions of climate, other species, etc.

If you have some additional explanation, then give it. Otherwise your doubts are meaningless.

Can we do repeatable experiments on plate tectonics? Planetary motion? Also, we can do experiments on natural selection over shorter time periods, such as the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Indeed, if you insist on explaining three billion years of life by any hypothesis, how could that hypothesis be subject to experiment?

My best answer is; I do not know, maybe it could, maybe it could not. See, I have no repeatable experiments or theory to show that it would be possible.

And why do you cling to repeatable experiments? You have already admitted that natural selection occurs. Do you have anything to add?

If you don't believe that natural selection was the only/main cause of the change in life forms over the last three billion years, then feel free to posit an alternative. You will have to show not only that the alternative explains these changes, but that it occurs in the first place.

We're not "assuming" that natural selection occurs. We see it acting today. As for what occurred over the past three billion years, we have a fossil record.

I have issues with how Excel deals with percentiles, so I'm not entirely in Microsoft's camp here. Nevertheless, I'm not taking someone who responds to his/her oppponents as "fucktard" as an authority.

Also, what does "average" mean?