Basic Principles for Evolutionists
The universe has been expanding and cooling since the bid bang. Regardless of what one posits to be responsible for these events, they appear to be governed by physical laws some of which have been elucidated. We now understand that whenever nonequilibrium systems are considered, where there is a negentropic (potential) source and an entropic (disorder) sink, there is the possibility for spontaneous organization (creativity). In other words, as long as the entropy of the universe increases, the entropy of subsystems can decrease (the second law of thermodynamics). For example, our sun emits a spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that is rich in ultraviolet light. This type of light is of relatively high frequency and hence has a greater informational potential than does lower frequency light. The earth re-irradiates infrared light back into the space. Infrared light is of a lower frequency and therefore has lost information. The biosphere is powered by the information extracted from the higher frequency light. Therefore, evolution and all of its creative manifestations is the process of acquiring and refining energy that comes from our sun and the expanding universe. We must uncover for ourselves how to apply these thermodynamic principles to manage our ecosystems and individual lives in a sensible,healthy manner.
The creative aspects of thermodynamics are only consistent with nonequilibrium systems, they are totally improbable events when dealing with equilibrium systems. This physics has be pioneered and developed by Ilya Prigogine. He recieved the Nobel in chemistry for his work on dissapative structures. Some informative but technical books on this topic are: From Being to Becoming Time Complexity in the Physical Sciences, Ilya Prigogine,W.H. Freeman and Company San Francisco, 1980. Exploring Complexity, Gregoire Nicolis and Ilya Prigogine, W.H. Freeman and Company San Francisco,1989.
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