No it doesn’t. Programming requires an intelligent programmer

Have you seen planet earth 2?

No it doesn’t

Have you heard of machine learning?

Yeah, I use machine learning

It's not *literal* computer programming, think of that term a bit more abstractly

I literally program the algorithms

Ok, so let’s say you start with a program

And you randomly change that program

Even with machine learning, the program needs a goal. It needs instructions

Yes, a goal

That’s what selective pressure does

It gives it a goal

The goal is to exist

But it has no goal

The goal is to reproduce and continue the species, ultimately

Because anything that fails to exist, doesn’t exist

The cells have no algorithm

Yes they do

They respond to stimuli

That’s an algorithm

You can think of a cell as a series of Boolean operators

*operations

I’m going to find something to show you how machine learning works

Right, I also use machine learning in my job

Let’s focus on evolution

Are you sure?

So DNA, which acts as a program

Uh huh

Programs cells

Uh, ok

Which receive random mutations

Which can be positive, negative, or neutral

Ha, ok

Depending on what pressures are selecting on them

Uh huh

Sure

Negative mutations will underperform, positive mutations will overperform

Thus positive mutations will tend to be maintained in a population, and negative mutations will tend to be removed from a population

Uh, ok. So we are assuming they already have basic instructions

Then, through many generations and separation between populations, speciation can occur