@hazlin @cirnog @deprecated_ii > I don't remember without looking, but someone on here was arguing that evolutionary algorithms used by programmers proved evolution in nature.

That most likely refers dawkins computer experiments, which are admittedly rather crude.

The local minima problem is usually answered with what evolutionists call "survival of the flattest".
I.e. environments are changing constantly - not only in climate, but also the set of all other organisms in a biome.
Overfit species are culled all the time. (one of them dying out can also trigger an entire cascade of extinctions)

This means the organisms you see today all descent from "generic enough" organisms that survived past extinction cascades.