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To: Dimensio
Does order come of chaos by itself? Prove it.

738 posted on 04/06/2006 8:44:51 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell
Does order come of chaos by itself?

Without any qualifiers, yes.

Prove it.

Relatively chaotic collections of water molecules form into relatively ordered crystalline pattersn of snowflakes.
740 posted on 04/06/2006 8:47:34 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: William Terrell

Chaos doesn't really exist. Things just dump back into the vacuum.


751 posted on 04/06/2006 8:59:16 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: William Terrell
Does order come of chaos by itself? Prove it.

It happens all the time

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

Ordered states are often a more energetically favorable configuration than unordered states. This is how crystalization occurs.
951 posted on 04/06/2006 2:25:06 PM PDT by gomaaa (We love Green Functions!!!!)
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To: William Terrell
Does order come of chaos by itself? Prove it.

Snow is "ordered" --it consists of millions of perfectly formed 6-sided crystals-- yet it forms from disordered water vapor.

Does it do that "by itself"? That is a philosophical question. It certainly does so according to the laws of nature.

Personally, I believe that God is the ultimate author of the laws of nature. But I don't believe that He sits down and carves each snowflake. I think He created a universe with natural laws and knew that those laws would be sufficient to accomplish His purposes. I therefore see no conflict between my belief in God and my acceptance of the overwhelming evidence for evolution.

1,001 posted on 04/06/2006 4:30:29 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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