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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (44907)

1/17/2014 7:52:44 PM

From: Brumar89

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I answered your question. The "emergent" stuff you post is just an appeal to magic:

The universe has emergent properties that are extremely ordered

What emergent properties? What does "emergent properties" even mean? I think you just mean things happen by magic. How do you know there's such a thing as an emergent property, if you can even define what that means? What can you predict on the basis of your "theory" of emergent properties?

If you look up the term you get:

	any unique property that "emerges" when component objects are joined together in constraining relations to "construct" a higher-level aggregate object, a novel property that unpredictably comes from a combination of two simpler constituents

Like when you combine the components of a watch and produce a watch, the watch emerged and you can say the watch components had the emergent property to produce a watch. However, such things just don't happen by accident, any emergent properties something has is designed in. You seem to think saying the words emergence or emergent properties means you've disproven intelligent design, as if "emergence" is some kind of magic that just happens without planning.

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