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To: jennyp
Third, complexity does not imply “design.” One of Adam Smith’s most powerful insights, developed further by Friedrich Hayek, is that incredible complexity can emerge in society without a designer or planner, through “spontaneous order.” Hayek showed how in a free market the complex processes of producing and distributing goods and services to millions of individuals do not require socialist planners. Rather, individuals pursuing their own self-interest in a system governed by a few basic rules—property rights, voluntary exchange by contract—have produced all the vast riches of the Western world.

While efficient economies do not require "socialist planners", one would be wrong to suggest that the order of a free economy is not designed. It's actually quite the opposite. There is a conscious design by the individuals who participate in it.

also, it is intellectually dishonest to compare biology and economics. They are not the same.

77 posted on 01/26/2006 2:38:46 PM PST by connectthedots
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"also, it is intellectually dishonest to compare biology and economics. They are not the same.

Using economics as an analogy is intellectually dishonest? How so?

The point was that examples of complexity arising out of chaotic systems has been evidenced.

ID dudes have yet to show that complexity is limited to intelligent actions.

Got any evidence other than 'it looks like it'?

399 posted on 01/26/2006 7:03:20 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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