program selection system

There are those among us who believe that a puddle of primoridal ooze, a Ball of Mud, if you will, can, if you leave it alone for four billion years or so, turn into a sentient primate that can ponder his or her own existence without the benefit of “intelligent” design. Indeed, such an “intelligent” creature might him or herself design marvelous software artifacts to burnish mighty civilizations. What ever one might think of the plausibility of biological evolution, surely no one would dispute that software is the product of, if not omnicient, at least semi-intelligent designers.