(January 19, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Pulse Wrote: Living things are distinguished by their specified complexity. Crystals such as granite fail to qualify as living because they lack complexity; mixtures of random polymers fail to qualify because they lack specificity. [L. Orgel, The Origins of Life, John Wiley, NY, 1973, p. 189]
The open systems argument does not help evolution. Raw energy cannot generate the specified complex information in living things.
Wrong. That is his definition and not one that stands up to scrutiny. The only consistent characteristic of life is that it has a metabolism.
Free energy flowing through matter is what can generate complex systems.
Anyway it's getting late and I'm going to bed. Ask if you want examples or references. I sense that you aren't actually open to any evidence though hence the reason why you are already starting to repeat yourself.
