(May 10, 2018 at 2:55 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(May 10, 2018 at 2:29 pm)robvalue Wrote: So rocks are designed when it's convenient, and aren't designed when it isn't convenient. Is that about right?
Pretty much, additionally...you can tell somethings designed if it;s complex, or if it;s simple.
CDF47 needs to read this paper:
Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics in an Energy-Rich Universe (Published in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy), pp21-31, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005.) - Eric Chaisson
Quote:Free energy, the ability to do work, is the most universal currency known in the natural sciences. In an expanding, non-equilibrated Universe, it is free energy that drives order from disorder, from big bang to humankind, in good accord with the second law of thermodynamics and leading to the production of entropy. On all scales, from galaxies and stars to planets and life, the rise of complexity over the course of natural history can be uniformly quantified by analyzing the normalized flow of energy through open, non-equilibrium, thermodynamic systems.