[darkmighty]

Those training algorithms should accomplish the same goal, but backpropagation (or some variant) turns out to be the best choice for the kind of network shown here (large, non-recurrent), because it directly uses the learning gradient, while evolutionary methods don't usually make use of this information. I'm not a researcher in this area, but I'm quite sure you'd have a bad time going with pure evolutionary methods for this kind of network.