That was Lamarck.
... or Simpson's Punctuated Equilibrium ...
S.J. Gould and Niles Eldredge's punctuated equilibrium.
In no case has information been observed to spontaneously arise out of the undirected actions of the laws of the natural world.
Did you know the cosmic microwave background radiation reveals that the universe was once quite evenly filled with a hot gas of hydrogen, helium, and a little lithium? Nothing else, just that? Would you say the information content of the universe has gone up or down since then?
Did you know the cosmic microwave background radiation reveals that the universe was once quite evenly filled with a hot gas of hydrogen, helium, and a little lithium? Nothing else, just that? Would you say the information content of the universe has gone up or down since then?
Where are the necessary words like (possibly but we didn't have measuring instruments back then) or (there may have been "little essence" of Emeril Bam! Bam!) or (my microwave oven is full of hot gas, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, my kids balloon from the party and also my battery from my laptop "a little lithium" and thats it, really I took out the glass carousel). hehehe
But seriously where can I read up on this?
That was Lamarck.Yes, but I thought that Darwin embraced it as the source of change upon which Natural Selection worked. Perhaps not.
S.J. Gould and Niles Eldredge's punctuated equilibrium .Sorry, I knew it was Gould, but I'm always mixing up those two scientists with three names :-)
Did you know the cosmic microwave background radiation reveals that the universe was once quite evenly filled with a hot gas of hydrogen, helium, and a little lithium? Nothing else, just that? Would you say the information content of the universe has gone up or down since then?The cosmic microwave background radiation has been interpreted within the framework of the big bang theory as indicating an early, largely uniform universe. The radiation by itself tells us nothing. Furthermore, it does not compel us to accept the theory. Regardless, if I accept your premise that the information content of the universe has gone up since then, neither the big bang theory nor the existence of uniform microwave radiation explains how this occurred. The existence of more information simply begs the question. Where did it come from?