Order and Disorder in Nature.


	Order and Disorder in Nature.

wildcat

7-15-2007 6:46 AM

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philosophy, mathematics, order, disorder, randomness

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7-15-2007 6:57 AM

debbyski

Wildcat baby,
I absolutely luv your mind.

7-15-2007 7:00 AM

wildcat

wildcat bows..I am blushing, Debbyski!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a749363e-fa4e-4791-9ce9-39db9216d018/8ABEE40D-68E6-484C-8EFD-81A2FC4E9F33/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/thoughts.htm" href="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/thoughts.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lhup.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/thoughts.htm"><H3>Random thoughts on randomness and order.</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/thoughts.htm"><P>The "Game of Life" shows that order can arise from disorderly arrangements of objects if there are some rules of interaction in place. Those rules can be chosen without forethought as to the outcome. The kind of order that results certainly exhibits the kind of structure, pattern and lawfulness we find in nature, but it arose without purposeful design.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/thoughts.htm"><P>Creationists and ID advocates like to choose "loaded" words to suggest the kind of conclusion they wish to draw from them. So instead of the neutral words "pattern, structure, complexity and lawfulness", they speak of these as "design", which suggests that some intelligence intended this result.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/philosop/thoughts.htm">They use the word "disorder" to mean <B>total</B> absence of order, and then invoke the slogan "order cannot arise from disorder" as if it were a law of nature. It isn't, for the order of an open system can increase if there's energy input, and <B>complete</B> disorder is not to be found anywhere in nature</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8ABEE40D-68E6-484C-8EFD-81A2FC4E9F33/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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