intelligent design
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I fully understand what Conway's "game" does. As I stated it's one of many Universal Turing Machines. And I agree with you that it does simulate simplicity to complexity within the constraints of a computer program. Steven Hawking has produced these programs as well as numerous others.
It is only an "evolution system" as you call it, in that it, through repeating patterns, can show how hypothetical simplicity represented in dots can move to hypothetical complexity. And my point, which seems to get you terribly befuddled, is that this hypothetical model has no bearing in the realm of organic biochemistry. Factual discovery has demonstrated this.
So, I don't take issue with you that the program does what it says it does - within the program. Nature does not display this model, however. And you have a fallacious presupposition that there is some multiverse model to the universe that keeps spitting out patterns like Conway's program. Again, please read chapter 4 in Dembski's - No Free Lunch.
So, as you say, I am perfectly able to "just appreciate, the concept, that from a few dots [in a hypothetical programmed scenario], all sorts of mad shit can happen."