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thermodynamics and evolution. This can This problem is far from being sol-
clearly be seen in his following words: ved. 221
There is another question, which has pla- The final point reached by the con-
gued us for more than a century: What cept of Chaos Theory and the conjecture
significance does the evolution of a living based on it is that no concrete result sup-
being have in the world described by porting and confirming evolution and
thermodynamics, a world of ever-increa- eliminating the dichotomy between ther-
sing disorder? 220
modynamics and evolution has ever be-
Prigogine was aware that at the mo- en obtained. As in all other spheres, sci-
lecular level, the theories he had produ- ence once again reveals that with regard
ced did not apply to living systems—a to thermodynamics, evolution is impos-
living cell, for instance. He set out the sible and that there cannot be other exp-
problem in these terms: lanation for the emergence of life than
creation.
The problem of biological order involves
the transition from the molecular activity
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THE EVOLUTION IMPASSE I
