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echo: barktopus
to: John Beckett
from: Adam
date: 2006-04-12 12:59:28
subject: Re: More bad news for ID

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

John Beckett wrote:
> Adam  wrote in message
news::
>> I'm not at all sure that physical laws promote complexity. Chaos
>> promotes complexitty & the physical laws promote order.
>
> The arguments of scientists like Paul Davies are more sophisticated and
> much more detailed than the observations that we have made here. There is
> a certain set of magic numbers in physics (the constants in the
> fundamental equations). The argument is that these numbers have values
> that are essential for a universe, complex elements, molecules, cells,
> life - if the numbers were even slightly different, nothing we see would
> exist.
>
> John
>

That doesn't mean complexity is created from order. reduce the temperature
of the universe to 0 kelvin & you would see much less complexity
because there would be much less chaos.

Adam

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