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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (19258)	2/12/2005 12:50:48 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

If we step back and look at the universe as a whole, the tendency is not for uniform gray expanses, but ordered chaos, especially in systems far from equilibrium. Even an exploding star falls back to some type of ordered behavior after it sheds its outer skin explosively. The tendency is for circulation, recycling and reuse. Preservation of identity, however, is not guaranteed. It doesn't matter what happens in individual cases like an evolutionary odd duck that doesn't replicate successfully - that becomes like trying to assess the information content of a Monet at 20x magnification. On balance, "life", that self-replicating process we all know and love, ends up looking more like magmatic differentiation than a random process of Brownian movement. While individual crystals in the magma dissolve and are re-absorbed, this provides no evidence against there being processes which lead to magmatic differentiation.