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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Orgel's Second Rule

" ... Orgel's rules are a set of axioms attributed to the evolutionary biologist Leslie Orgel.

Orgel's Second Rule
"Evolution is cleverer than you are."

Orgel's Second Rule is intended as a rejoinder to the argument by lack of imagination. In general, this rule expresses the sometimes experienced fact that "trial and error" strategies are better than centralized intelligent human planning.

Orgel's rule can also be used to counter creationist arguments in which often the hidden and non-provable presumption is suggested, that human intelligent planning is in general superior to trial and error strategies used by evolution. ... "

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