(April 15, 2013 at 1:31 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 15, 2013 at 1:37 am)Ryantology Wrote: Which is nothing if not a fantastic argument against the assertion that God created all real things through his 'love'.Depends on your understanding of love. Certainly, the emotional affections of human beings does not create directly. Human love does however reflect the nature of Divine Love. While this idea has been expressed in various ways, I think of it as this: a disposition to instantiate and unify. Not to dismiss the role of entropy in the Divine Order, but it does seem that life, contrary to being a random occurence also reflects this inherent ability of the physical world to self-organize.
No such thing. The total system in which some things "self organize" as you say always exhibits a net increase in entropy. Any local increase in order results in system wide greater decrease in order than if no "self organization" had occurred.
In practice earth plus sun plus life has a greater increase in entropy than earth plus sun without life.
