Re: Evolutionary Science (and the evolution of mankind's

[D S Byrne]

The theorist (Noble Prize winning physical chemist) who has written about
the significance of the arrow of time for a recasting of the timeless
traditional account of systemic development is Ilya Prigogine. See
Prigogine and Stengers 'Order out of Chaos' and a more recent book by
Prigogine alone. Wallerstein picks this up in his Gulbenkian report on
'Open the Social Sciences'. Progigine was a member of this committee. To
summarize a long and comlex argument, the application of the second law of
thermodynamics to biological, ecological and human social systems is
rubbish.

David Byrne
Dept of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Durham
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