I often read that Evolutionary Algorithms demonstrate the capability of mutation and selection to generate new molecular level function. When I look at them in detail the working algorithms seem to have imbeded within the code either a target or background information about the search space that is used to alow the algorithm to succeed where it otherwise would not. Evolutionary theory claimes that natural selection has no goal or target and is blind to the environment or search space it occupies.
It seems unrealistic to cite these models if they don't conform to the tenets of the theory. In another thread one poster cited these as validation of the cabability of Darwinian processes to generate new functional systems. I don't see how they are unless the models are modified to fit the tenents of the theory.