As I write this, there is a bag of yellow popcorn kernels on my desk here in my study. My study is a closed system. Without intervention from outside intelligence, my study tends to devolve into chaos.
You could probably argue that a lack of intelligence devolved my study into chaos. In the moments I am more intelligent (about once a month), order, design, and purpose are restored to the study, the popcorn kernels are placed in a more sensible place.
Einstein had a theory of entropy measuring the states of closed systems demonstrating a tendency to deteriorate into chaos without outside help. The tendency toward chaos in physics is symptomatic, it is not a cause. It is a description of something that is observed in nature. There are more of these symptoms observable in nature, not limited even to physics. Everything we observe isolated from outside intelligence devolves into chaos–the more time, the more chaos, the more devolution.
October 7, 2009 at 2:10 am |
[...] We’re talking about errors, not improvements. In theory a replication error could result in an improvement in the strand, and that is how evolution is supposed to work. However the vast majority of what we actually observe, and indeed the overall trend, better supports a theory of devolution rather than evolution. In fact not a single beneficial mutation has ever been documented. For all of the complex species that exist there should be billions of beneficial mutations that have already occurred, and thousands occurring that are observable now. Instead what we find is that our very DNA is devolving into chaos. [...]