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In reply to the discussion: Atheists Still Waiting for the Origin-of-Life Messiah [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)his explanation-of-his-motives is also good science
The statement cited in the OP -- "Certain basic laws of physics (coupled with mathematical probability) preach the same sermon systems tend toward chaos and disorder, not toward order and function" -- concerns me
... Thermodynamic equilibrium may be characterized by the minimum of the Helmholtz free energy defined usually by F = E - TS. Are most types of organisations around us of this nature? It is enough to ask such a question to see that the answer is negative. Obviously in a town, in a living system, we have a quite different type of functional order. To obtain a thermodynamic theory for this type of structure we have to show that that non-equilibrium may be a source of order. Irreversible processes may lead to a new type of dynamic states of matter which I have called dissipative structures ...
TIME, STRUCTURE AND FLUCTUATIONS
Nobel Lecture, 8 December, 1977
by ILYA PRIGOGINE