Intelligent Design (What should be taught in schools?)

by whitecraw, Friday, February 01, 2008, 21:49 (5921 days ago) @ George Jelliss

I don't think Maxwell's Demon could serve as a demiurge. To qualify as a candidate for demiurge status, Maxwell's Demon would have to be able to serve as the decisive power that transformed inorganic into organic matter, and in Maxwell's thought-experiment it serves only as the agency which decreases the entropy of a system while not violating conservation of energy. A neat trick, but it's hardly going to kick-start life.