Intelligent Design (What should be taught in schools?)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, August 18, 2008, 18:49 (5939 days ago) @ David Turell

David Turell wrote: "The following website uses the Second Law of Thermodynamics to refute the random mutation, natural selection theory." - Here, on the other hand, is an antidote to that article, which claims that evolution is a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics: - http://www.physorg.com/news137679868.html - It's surprising what mathematicians can prove! - John Conway and colleagues at Princeton have proved that if we have free will then so do subatomic particles: - http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35391/title/Do_subatomic_particles_have_free... - The paper, as a pdf, can be downloaded from: Arxiv.org, July 21, (0807.3286v1.pdf). - "It asserts, roughly, that if indeed we humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity. More precisely, if the experimenter can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus in a certain measurement, then the particle's response (to be pedantic ... the universe's response near the particle) is not determined by the entire previous history of the universe." - Conway and Kochen. - The idea in fact goes back to the early atomist philosophers: - "If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect — what is the source of the free will possessed by living things throughout the earth?" — Titus Lucretius Carus, Roman philosopher and poet, 99...55 BC.