RE: Natural Order and Science
February 16, 2016 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2016 at 9:33 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(February 16, 2016 at 1:32 am)Harris Wrote: In short, all science is founded on the assumption that the physical universe is ordered and rational.
No it doesn't. 'Ordered' and 'rational' are concepts laden with connotations of intention and intelligence. Saying that the universe is rational is nonsensical. Only something with intelligence can be rational or irrational. The universe is not intelligent.
Science describes what happens based on observation and can use these descriptions to infer what will happen next. That is all.
The universe wasn't ordered moments after the big bang, it was just radiation.
What you find with non-equilibrium thermodynamics is that ordered islands of complexity can develop within a sea of chaos. Yet entropy continues to increase as a result of this.