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To: blakep
We can say this. Any scientist will tell you that 'you can't create order from disorder'. It's never happened.

OF COURSE you can create order spontaneously from disorder! Fill a glass with salt water (completely disordered) and let the water evaporate. What you get is a salt crystal, as ordered as you please. Happens all the time.

49 posted on 04/11/2005 11:13:36 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist

That's entropy physicist. Entropy. Not creating 'order' as in (life) from disorder as in (nothing).

Again, you cannot create order from nothing. Any scientist will come out and tell you that.

It just doesn't happen.


53 posted on 04/11/2005 11:16:23 AM PDT by blakep
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To: Physicist; blakep; UseYourHead; Alamo-Girl; marron; PatrickHenry
OF COURSE you can create order spontaneously from disorder! Fill a glass with salt water (completely disordered) and let the water evaporate. What you get is a salt crystal, as ordered as you please. Happens all the time.

And of course YOU know, Physicist, that "order" and "organization" -- particularly self-organization -- are not the same things. "Order" pertains to non-living systems, where organization (self-organization) pertains to living systems. Or so I heard.

107 posted on 04/11/2005 12:03:06 PM PDT by betty boop (If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. -- Gen. George S. Patton)
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