So Larry , you believe this Genetic Algorithms are the answer to all questions posed by evolution and the big bang ?

And this algorithms you talk about , also created themselves ?

It doesn't make sense that billions of years ago a cell created itself , and created Genetic Algorithms , as well as DNA , to evolve , if a cell would have created itself out of chance, it is most likely it would have just died. Let me give you a simple example , if right now , all of a sudden , a human baby somehow created itself in mars (lets say mars has water) , would you assume it would live ? The chances of this cell creating itself , and somehow also have had a feeding mechanism , there is just too much you are implying that cannot be verified .

When you get down to the bottom you realize , the only way evolution and the big bang make sense is if you believe in it, you need faith, because all this events the theory is based on cannot be proven (well havnt as of now).

Here is another thing about the "Genetic Algorithms" , It doesnt prove ANYTHING.

"In artificial intelligence, an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a subset of evolutionary computation, a generic population-based metaheuristic optimization algorithm"
OK

"An EA uses some mechanisms inspired by biological evolution: reproduction, mutation, recombination, and selection"
I see

"Candidate solutions to the optimization problem play the role of individuals in a population, and the cost function determines the environment within which the solutions "live" "
Yes

"A limitation of evolutionary algorithms is their lack of a clear genotype-phenotype distinction. In nature, the fertilized egg cell undergoes a complex process known as embryogenesis to become a mature phenotype. This indirect encoding is believed to make the genetic search more robust (i.e. reduce the probability of fatal mutations), and also may improve the evolvability of the organism. Recent work in the field of artificial embryogeny, or artificial developmental systems, seeks to address these concerns."
Great , so there is problems with it.

"Usually, an initial population of randomly generated candidate solutions comprise the first generation"
So you have to have an initial population for this to work right ?

"The fitness function is applied to the candidate solutions and any subsequent offspring. "
And they have to be able to mate and create offspring right ?

"Two main classes of fitness functions exist: one where the fitness function does not change, as in optimizing a fixed function or testing with a fixed set of test cases"
Functions ? Intelligent desicions ?

"n selection, parents for the next generation are chosen with a bias towards higher fitness. "
So this "Intelligent" decisions just started making themselves , from non intelligent organisms ?

"Genetic algorithm - This is the most popular type of EA. One seeks the solution of a problem in the form of strings of numbers (traditionally binary, although the best representations are usually those that reflect something about the problem being solved - these are not normally binary), virtually always applying recombination operators in addition to selection and mutation. This type of EA is often used in optimization problems;"

That really sounds like a mathematical formula , again , you are saying this "Algorithm" just , what , happened ? through the first cell ? It appeared and designed an algorithm to maintain life ? Even though it had no intelligence right ? Or are we saying the first living organism HAD intelligence ? If so , where did it get it from ? Is intelligence then something that just is with life ?

Here is the definition of an Algorithm.
"In mathematics, computing, linguistics and related disciplines, an algorithm is a type of effective method in which a definite list of well-defined instructions for completing a task, when given an initial state, will proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end-state. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate randomness."

So it is a mathematical formula created by us to solve problems right ?
And we have also tweaked it for Genetics Algorithm , but it is still a mathematical formula created by us , we are just applying it to evolution , the question would be , how could this algorithm have just formed itself ?

Now here is food for thought , if we are just chemical reactions constantly happening , which is how somehow the first cell formed (yes , by CHANCE , unless you are actually saying Genetic Algorithms are hard coded in the universe and binded the cell together , which insane and absurd), Why hasnt our sun become aware of itself ? It is a MASSIVVE chemical reaction which is believed to have been occuring for billions of years , "The surface composition of the Sun consists of hydrogen (about 74% of its mass, or 92% of its volume), helium (about 24-25% of mass,[10] 7% of volume), and trace quantities of other elements, including Iron, Nickel, Oxygen, Silicon, Sulfur, Magnesium, Carbon, Neon, Calcium, and Chromium."
So , why hasn't the sun become alive ? What are you gonna say "Oh thats impossible , Genetics Algorithm ONLY works for us in earth , and that fist cell which created it , it doesnt apply to anything else"

To sujest a system of mathematical decisions used to determine the "survival of the fittest" somehow created and implemented itself from nothing is absurd , you have to take in mind that it all started (acording to evolution) with a single cell organism that somehow created itself (even though it's know single celled organisms are VERY COMPLEX systems which could not have spontanously created themselves) , so you say Genetics Algorithms are the answer to evolution's problems , you are saying this first incredibly simple yet alive (all life is complex and defies that believe) organism somehow managed to create and implement this "MATHEMATICAL" algorithm to solve it's current problems, that my friend is insane.

Or are you saying Genetics Algorithms are something that just happen , they just exist ? Well , that would be very convinient to say , but also unscientific as there is no proof this exists other than the algorithms "WE" create to solve our own problems , like the one of evolution.