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Origin Of Life And The Second Law Of Thermodynamics

Posted by Roaring Lovely on June 10, 2015 at 11:00am
When the question of origin of life is tabled, at many times it opens a can of worms. Immediately, the groud gets polarized. A 'them vs us' battle arises which clouds reasoning. Ultimately the issue is all about trying to prove or disprove how life came into being or did not come into being and not trying to understand how life might have come into being. So the words 'origin of life' has long gone out from the mouths of the curious to the mouths of those enthusiastic about using the 'origin of life' to prove and/or disprove something. Not so to me. I am more interested with understanding than even knowing.If the creationists whish to win the game, then I suggest that the current way in which they are playing isn't promising. They should kick the ball off the penalty area all the way to the middle of the field. What I am saying is that, amongst other things, they should shift the battle ground off biology and chemistry all the way to physics and metaphysics. Currently, the creationist reasoning isn't that sound. It seems to say:1.)If a phenomenon cannot be explained by science, then automatically, God did it.2.)Given biological laws, chemistry laws and physics laws, spontaneous abiogenesis is impossible.Considering '1', it gives atheist the opportunity to form an inverted and equally perveted version that has plagued reasoning for long:1.)If a phenomenon can be explained by science, then we need no intelligent designerConsidering '2', the arguments of creationists self destruct! Why agree with all what scientists say all the way from physics, to chemistry, to biology then holus bolus we turn we escape through the window when 'evolution' comes through the door? Essentially, creationist try to use science against science! If we need to say that if science can explain something, then we need no god, then by admitting that physics and chemistry are correct without invorking God, then they have already lost the battle!So the only way to use scientific reasoning well when talking of God is to bring 'God' within science! In other words, we completely do away with the false claim that if a phenomenon can be explained by science, then it needs no 'hand of God'. What is it for after all, if 'science' can explain everything but ultimately cannot explain itself? What if God is the ultimate author of science itself? Then the all issue is just a huge jock!Ok, lets see it. 'Science' is coined from latin word: 'scientia' which means 'knowledge'. 'Knowledge' on the other hand is inconceivable without a mind. The mere fact that universe can be known means that it has some deep and fundamental connection to the mind. Farthermore, it is a causal link. Lets consider the riversable dynamics the mind is most probably corelated with as it is corelated to the reversable electrodynamics in the brain. The principle of riversability states: If the universe can cause knowledge about itself in some mind, then knowledge about the universe in some mind can cause the universe. This is far from being far fetched. All dynamics in physics, exept thermodynamics obey this principle! Consider electromagnetism for instance: if an electric current can move a magnet in remort, then motion of a magnet in remort can cause electric current.THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICSWell, let me begine by some warm up. When you mension the word 'energy', everyone comes through the door. However, when you mension thermodynamics, especially the second law, almost everyone goes through the window! This is funny! It is like realy loving cars and hating stearing wheels. Even wishing that they were not there!The way creationists at times use the second law to undermine spontaneous evolution and/or abiogenesis is futile. However this does not mean it is entirely futile. If we use the insight itself in some fundamental way, then there is a strong point!The law states: a closed system spontaneously evolves from order to chaos and never the vice-versa! But the earth is an open system in that it receives energy from the sun. You can understand it this way: if you are to ask a scientist to explain what goes on in your body in luxury of details up to molecular level as you arrange some blocks, I bet it will sound like some 'spontaneous' nartural processes. However, by arranging the blocks, the system is evolving from chaos to order!But even another good example is spontaneous formation of crystals with their dazzling order.The only way for a creationist is to attack this word 'spontaneous'. I mean if the processes going on in your skull can ultimately be termed 'spontaneous', might this word refers to a mere perspective? Remember that the hypothesis of God is arived at via analogy. We see life looks like what we make. Then we should stop at saying that the world was created due to processes like those that happens in our brains as we make things. So we force the atheist to a dilema. Either admit that the interlect is ubsent in nartural processes and the brain requires a supernatural explanation or that interlect is inherent in nartural phenomena and 'spontaneous' is nolonger a valid argument agains the need for god. In whichever way they choose, one can argue for god!!So you see the eror! But let me use an analogy. There is a wrist watch powered by wound spring that was built to rewind itself using random motions of your hand while working! So you see the watch was designed to wind itself spontaneously! This sumarily refutes any attempt to say that a thing happening spontaneously necesarily makes a designer unecesary. This even shows very well in crystal formations. One can reasonably hold that crystals are things designed to assemble spontaneously. Same applies to DNA etc. Infact such things as diamonds, buckyministefulerene etc convinces me of an intelligent designer than even DNA!To harvest well the insight of the second law of thermodynamics, we need to go deeper to understand it alongside other dynamics. But it is pretty simple. We can consider a tornado etc and ask why the whirling wind eventually die. Even if the energy present around is enough to form a whirlwind, the particles needs some fantastic timings to maintain the pattern. Such timings can only be achieved by a mind! However, such things as electromagnetism, gravity etc can achieve eternal vortices yet they don't violate the second. So a good way of explaining the other dynamics is to inject a mind in the ocean! So because crystals are governed by quantum electrodynamics, I can indead claim that it has some designer! To understand it, try to imagine the 15 billiard balls somehow arranging themselves on the centre to form a tringle. It requires a mind to achieve that. So if neutral balls plus mind=order, and neutral tiny 'balls' in crystals plus electric charges=order, then it follows that electric charges have the same effect as a mind, or is infact equivalent. This is consistent because the brain that was involved in arranging the billiard balls is indead electric charges!! I find such to be powerfull argument for God immanent in narture.
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