RE: Natural Order and Science
February 22, 2016 at 5:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2016 at 5:37 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(February 21, 2016 at 11:56 pm)Harris Wrote: For the sake of argument if I agree with you that things “never really created so much as the constituent matter reshaped into different configuration” then why there are laws which are driving that shaping and reshaping in precise orderly manner according to specific code of instructions. That is the actual idea behind my original post.
There are no laws which 'drive and shape and reshape in precise and orderly manner according to specific code of instructions'.
What you have are thermo-dynamical gradients and formations of matter that find the most stable states in order to minimise free energy. That is, energy that can perform work. This leads to islands of order and complexity while increasing entropy of its environment. The single definition of life that can be applied consistently is that it has a metabolism.
Do you think that each individual snowflake is shaped in a precise and orderly manner according to a specific code of instructions? What about crystals? Where are these instructions? What are they? How are they read and executed?
