RE: My daughter wants to know....
January 19, 2017 at 3:54 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2017 at 4:01 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(January 18, 2017 at 6:32 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: So the kiddo has a question and has been quite argumentative with me about it. Actually, she has several questions.
1. If god doesn't exist, where did life come from? Her answer is evolution isn't the answer because we had to come from somewhere.
She says logic and reason doesn't make sense. The big bang doesn't make sense and can't explain it because an explosion can't create things when explosions destroy things. That can't explain why there's life.
Her words. Have at it because I tried to tell her that you don't just throw in the excuse that "god did it", when there's no definitive answer to these things.
Quantum irregularities after the Big Bang set up thermodynamic gradients. This allowed for self organisation which is a consequence of the laws of thermodynamics. Self organisation works by minimising free energy, that is any energy that can perform work as a result of being in a gradient. A crystal is a self organised system for example. Self organisation has given us stars, planets, geology, chemistry, biology, evolution, brains, eco-systems, societies & culture, technology etc. The product of this is an increase in global entropy. Life more effectively reduces the thermodynamic gradient and increases entropy over time than a self organised system that can not reproduce before decaying to nothing.
