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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: one_less who wrote (93690)1/14/2005 1:05:25 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
<would not discount the idea of purposeful creation>

Of course not, but whose set of hypothetical purposeful creative acts would we include (considering they all have no hard evidence and give widely different accounts depending upon the social tradition)? That is not in the scope of biology class which seeks to take hard evidence and assemble it meaningfully into a context. Such topics are part of philosophy of science or religious education. This is where the solution lies: Talk all we want about Creations of all kinds, but put the discussion into classes where that is appropriate.

My humble belief is that all information in the universe was stored in, but not realized at, in the first creative act (whether that was a big "C" Creation or little "c" creation ala Big Bang). However, even physicists can't think of a way to theoretically describe the very first instant of creation - that is a singularity which mathematically means "our equations of state don't work".

I can show that dust bunnies spontaneously assemble out of disorder and that the instructions for their creation are distributed in the components of the system as a diffuse information state. This is a good model for life and self-assembly in higher organisms. That, at least, can be reproduced experimentally. Other creative acts aren't.
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