ext_3229 ([identity profile] nagasvoice.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] annissamazing 2011-04-29 02:50 am (UTC)

Very nicely done. One of the weird problems that creationists and intelligent design people seem to have is that they insist there is no such thing as complex self-creating systems. Some of the math, physics, and chemistry out there shows this happening right in front of us. Some of this is the self-building stuff used for nano engineering and other things like silicon chip etching and design, things which specifically depend on the innate properties of a material to develop from simple structures to more complex ones under certain circumstances.
The complexities of snowflakes would be a more obvious example.
It doesn't take Jack Frost personally handpainting every flake, if there's inner atomic structure and bonds between molecules which kick in at certain temperatures.
Another example in the social sciences might be the development of websites like wikipedia, where volunteers and experts on various topics just show up and construct data entries because they want the correct information to be available to everybody. Nobody made them do it.
Why can these folks not see this same self-building process can be true to biology?
I'd have a lot more patience with such folks if they were living like the Amish and were complete Luddites, but they use radios and watch tv and wear acrylic fiber clothing and still go choosing what parts of the science they want to ignore when the whole thing is *also* an on-going, self-building edifice.

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