On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Are you saying that Darwin has an explanation for the origin of order? >> >> Yes, mutation and natural selection. > > > No. Natural selection is a type of order. Mutation describes a deviation > from an established order which itself contributes to order. You could say the order was already there at the beginning of the Universe but evolution gave it a different form. So where did the original order come from? > The cosmology you suggest is something along the lines of "Once upon a time, > there was randomness and emptiness which became living organisms eventually > because that is inevitably one of the things that can happen.". Sort of like > saying if you throw enough sand in a bucket, eventually it will play > football and develop ballet and forget that it was ever sand. We know that some molecules can self-replicate. We know that these chemicals can be made from simpler chemicals. Given a solution with the simpler chemicals, the right conditions and enough time, the self-replicators will spontaneously form. Once they form, they will persist and multiply, because that is what self-replicators do. This could be a very unlikely event but it does not need to occur more than once. If it is possible to make self-replicators in small spontaneous steps from sand then eventually the same will occur with sand, somewhere in the universe. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
