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05/22/07
The Paley Watch Company Uses Natural Selection to Assemble Watches
Can watch parts be placed in a box, shaken vigorously, and result in a fully assembled watch? The Paley Watch Company in Eugene, Oregon says yes! They are applying natural selection in a controlled environment to assemble their watches thereby reducing required personnel. The savings are passed to the customer.
In what is now universally recognized by true scientists as a stupid comment, William Paley (1743-1805) wrote that watches could not be assembled using Darwinian mechanisms.
Today, we know that Paley's conjecture was stupid, and stochastic procedures such as box shaking are accepted as viable approaches to engineering design. Sir Oliver Witherspoon chronicles Darwin's initial questioning of Paley's claim, and Darwin's attempt to assemble a watch by box shaking.
Indeed, The Paley Watch Company in Eugene, Oregon, assembles watches using this method.
"The principle is a straightforward application of natural selection," claims Tristran Korpulous, chief engineer for the Paley Watch Company. "Watch parts are placed in the controlled environment of a shaker. Although the probability the parts will assemble is small, the chance is there. Given enough time, the Law of Large Numbers dictates the watch will, indeed, be ultimately assembled. This is a process familiar to all true evolutionary scientists."
Korpulous' watch making business is financed unconventionally. After repeated rejection by venture capitalists as infeasible, he circulated his natural selection based business plan among today's most prominent evolutionary scientists and quickly raised the needed funds. The scientists shared Korpulous' enthusiasm for the first business application of applied natural selection.
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