Starting in 2001, Robert Pennock at Michigan State University in East Lansing and colleagues wrote a computer program that behaves like a self-replicating organism able to mutate unpredictably and evolve (Nature, vol 423, p 139).

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It would not be surprising if Biologic wanted to challenge the impact of Pennock's work by finding a counter-example in which a computer simulation fails to produce complexity by random mutation alone.

Hi. I wrote a computer program that does this cool thing.

Oh yeah? Well I wrote a computer program that doesn't do that cool thing. That proves it's not really possible to do that cool thing.