Creationism and the order in nature

Mayr: What Evolution is, 2001, states that “it is sometimes claimed that evolution, by producing order, is in conflict with the ‘law of entropy’ of physics, according to which evolutionary change should produce an increase of disorder. Actually there is no conflict, because the entropy law is valid for closed systems only, whereas the evolution of a species of organisms can reduce entropy at the expense of the environment and the sun supplies a continuing input of energy.”

I have a different view of this. Creationists are right in the sense that random events do not produce order. But they have produced an enormous amount of disorder represented by millions of different species and billions of different individuals in certain species, in agreement with the entropy law. Because a more widespread gene pool is more disordered. The order in the biologic sphere was biggest when the first living organism ruled the roost. Disorder/entropy may also be called biological diversity because – as I see it – there is no reason to distinguish between disorder and diversity because it is the same random evolution, giving rise to both.

The illusion of order in the biologic sphere is due to the fact that only a very tiny little fraction of all possible DNA-messages may manifest themselves as living organisms. Thus, the disorder becomes restricted, and this restricted disorder is interpreted as order by both creationists and biologists. Intuitively, this may be understood, if we observe that the duality order-disorder is like cold-warmth. Actually there is no cold, only limited warmth. Likewise, there is no order, only limited disorder.

So, for our purposes, evolution may be seen as a random process climbing a phenotypic landscape, ruled by all restrictions, and which will completely determine the shape of living organisms. The landscape is completely dependent of the almighty laws of nature (in the sense that they are valid throughout the whole universe), properties of DNA molecules, proteins etcetera, whose origin is not known.

If it were possible to prove that the electro-magnetism, for instance, is a product of some random process, then we have perhaps proved that there is no god. But, to my knowledge, there is no such proof. So, the only way for me to believe in some God is if it is possible to believe that God created the laws of nature inclusive the entropy law and the evolution. But this is by no means self evident.

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