Jim Henderson wrote:
> The book, from what I've heard of it, uses the idea of a clockwork as its 
> premise - something so mechanically complex that it must have been 
> created rather than evolved or grown.

Well, mechanical devices don't evolve because they're not alive. It's 
very difficult to have darwinian evolution without birth and death and 
genetics and such.

But if you set up an ecosystem with gears and hands and weights and 
rachets and things like that, and apply selection pressure for accurate 
watches, suddenly you get pretty accurate watches evolving.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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