Empiricism as a world view is dangerous since it excludes every truth that cannot be observed and reproduced. Some of these other truths may known in other ways.
Some people are bent on believing something. Isn't it better that they believe that there is no God rather than have them believe in a literal interpretation of the bible? Which is more dangerous?
What we have discovered about evolution says nothing about what may or may not have created that which evolves.
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Conway%2 7s_Game_of_Life
http://descartes. cnice.mecd.es/materi ales_didacticos/Game _life/ia.htm
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/The_Sims
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Genetic_ memory
http://www.simula tion-argument.com/