Re: Crichton, evolution and chaos

GRMorton@aol.com
Wed, 11 Oct 1995 23:08:07 -0400

John turnbull wrote:
>> Even if new
"chaos-to-order" models enhance the probability by many orders of
magnitude to form the first reproducing entity, the question of the
origin is not answered without addressing who arranged the laws to
cooperate so well." (Cosmos, Bios, Theos - Henry Margenau & Abraham Varghese,
Open Court, 1992, pg 29). In other words, systems that self-organize all by
themselves suggest that the end product was in fact the result of a design
built right into the very laws of nature itself.<<

This last sentence is almost exactly my view of evolution. God programmed
the outcome into the laws of nature themselves! Thus just like Sierpinski's
gasket is always produced from the chance choice of direction, and some
simple rules, life and humans can be produced from the rules God laid into
the laws of nature.

glenn