Re: Evolutionary question concerning God.

someone5 wrote:


So if I reword it:
If the behaviour of the individual atoms still obey the laws of physics
according to our current understanding, then won't the organism?

None of our laws address entire systems, only their parts. You may think one could deduce the behaviour of the whole from the parts but that is not the case. I will give you an example. Testing out airframes. You can test out individual parts in a wind tunnel but you cannot predict from that how the entire airframe will behave.

You could argue that the way parts interact determine how the whole system will act. But epistemologically we cannot infer global behaviour from the behaviour of the parts. There are interactions that escape our purview.

That is why we cannot predict weather for more than two weeks out. We can determine how any given molecule of air should act but we cannot predict large weather systems. The dynamics of the system is chaotic even the the dynamics of the parts are not.

Manny Feld.

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