E is for Entropy

It isn’t that we “just haven’t found” it yet [the so-called natural process that generates living organisms].  There are in fact very specific natural laws prohibiting the spontaneous generation of biological systems.  The term is entropy.  It refers to the fact that in any natural system, left to its own devices, the system trends toward disorder.  From greater to lesser order and never the other way around.  For this reason, as we will later discuss – the entire Universe requires a supernatural explanation – as a strict, logical necessity.

If humans disappeared from the planet, our cities would crumble almost immediately.  If a living body ceases to live, ceases to acquire new energy and resources, it will degrade.  From order to disorder.  These are facts and they don’t operate the other way around – historically the ‘scientific’ argument has been “well they could operate the other way around” when in fact they have never been witnessed to do so.  And even if something could conceivably happen, that it is not impossible does not make it probable, likely, or scientifically viable in the real world.

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As a practical fact, all living organisms are a direct product of the Cellular assembly mechanisms contained in their ancestor cells.    Every organism that has ever been witnessed to exist was assembled via the mechanics of the cell, as directed by the information in DNA.  A “first cause” is needed – one that contains all of the intelligence of the cell, and perhaps much more.

[Figure x Cellular Assembly]

Nature does not create Organisms any more than Nature creates automobiles.  Or stated another way, nature has been witnessed to produce life from non-life as often as it has produced sky scrapers – which is to say, never in the history of the world.  *

*Again, this fact no one disputes.  Material-only sciences seek to go against the facts and the theory behind them.

Think of automobiles.

Are they intelligently created? 

Of course they are… Is this a ‘supernatural’ or mystical (religious) claim?

Of course it isn’t … it is a practical fact about the source and cause required to make cars.

[curious case of non-present-day abio-genesis while advocating “past” abiogenesis].

If it is obvious and not mystical or religious, or a ‘fairy tale’, that intelligence can create things such as cars and houses and computers, then Intelligence itself is not a “mystical” or silly or foolish or outdated concept – but, rather, an irrefutable reality of the Universe and the world we live in.  We are intelligent – not a metaphor for intelligence.  Lest the word, and hence the distinction have no meaning; a framework that is unacceptable for there are in fact meaningful distinctions between artifacts and ‘naturally’ produced items.

We accept automobiles because 1) we made them, but also 2) they were materially arranged by material-bodied beings (matter moving matter).  The real problem, the real refusal to conceptualize the origin of life rests in the fact that ENERGY itself would have to behave intelligently in order to create life.   Yet, energy behaves intelligently anyway – we call it law.

[Quantum Choice] [Max Planck]

[Max Planck list of accomplishments]

Is energy behaving orderly (when it does not have to) any more radical than energy behaving intelligently?  It seems miraculous either way. 

The question can be asked another way.  Which is more extraordinary, a child speaking or a child doing physics calculations?  One is mathematical the other logical.

Universal order and individual logos are simply a different type of intelligence.  This is quite like our own ability to do math or write poems.  One allows for stability of the system, (engineering, infrastructure, etc.) and the other for creative expression within it (music, poetry, artistic design)!  Incidentally, intelligence already acts directly upon matter without intermediary (material) causes – and we are the evidence for this.

Neither case violates physical laws, though neither can be expressed or achieved by fixed causes.  CREATIVE causes are required.