No. The algorithms we tend to talk about almost always do some-algorithm can be mathematically proven to yield in a foolproof way, and this thing interesting—that's why they attract our attention. But a procedure is especially true of evolutionary algorithms. Most of the controversies about doesn't fail to be an algorithm just because it is of no conceivable use or Darwinism, as we shall see, boil down to disagreements about just how value to anyone. Consider a variation on the elimination-tournament algo-powerful certain postulated evolutionary processes are—could they actually rithm in which the losers of the semi-finals play in the finals. This is a stupid do all this or all that in the time available? These are typically investigations rule, destroying the point of the whole tournament, but the tournament would into what an evolutionary algorithm might produce, or could produce, or is still be an algorithm. Algorithms don't have to have points or purposes. In likely to produce, and only indirectly into what such an algorithm would addition to all the useful algorithms for alphabetizing lists of words, there are inevitably produce.