Introducing Stylus—New Software for a New Take on Evolutionary Simulation — June 4th, 2008 by Douglas Axe
One of Biologic Institute’s research projects goes public this week, with a paper in PLoS ONE describing a new model for studying protein evolution [1] and a project at SourceForge.net providing the software to implement it [2] (both free of charge).
Okay—it’s not free beer, but here’s why we think it’s an exciting development anyway.
The challenge Darwinism currently faces is about broad explanatory principles—what kinds of things can be produced by undirected causes and what kinds of things can’t (even in billions of years). So, while the main goal is to explain the things of biology, it should be possible to advance that goal by examining things that are like the things of biology in some important way.
Computer models may prove very useful here.