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

[Tor Forde]

D. Byrne wrote:

> 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.

Exactly what I am saying!


Tor Forde