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essential source of this organisation at all molecular order of the cell. This
levels is conscious design: in a word, problem is far from being solved. 7
creation. This is the point most recently arrived
at by the chaos theory and related
The "Chaos Theory" Evasion speculations. No concrete outcome has
Quite aware that the second law of been attained that would support or
thermodynamics renders evolution verify evolution, or eliminate the
impossible, some evolutionist scientists contradiction between evolution, law of
have made speculative attempts to square entropy, and other physical laws.
the circle between the two, in order to be Despite all these evident facts,
able to claim that evolution is possible. As evolutionists try to take refuge in simple
usual, even those endeavours show that subterfuges. Plain scientific truths show
the theory of evolution faces an that living things and the ordered,
inescapable impasse. planned, and complex structures of living
One person distinguished by his efforts things could in no way have come into
to marry thermodynamics and evolution being by coincidence under normal
is the Belgian scientist Ilya Prigogine. circumstances. This situation makes it
Starting out from chaos theory, clear that the existence of living beings can
Prigogine proposed a number of only be explained by the intervention of a
hypotheses in which order forms from supernatural power. That supernatural
chaos (disorder). However, despite all his power is the creation of God, who created
best efforts, he was unable to reconcile the entire universe from nothing. Science
thermodynamics and evolution. This is has proven that evolution is still
clearly seen in what he says: impossible as far as thermodynamics is
There is another question, which has concerned and the existence of life has no
plagued us for more than a century: explanation but Creation.
What significance does the evolution of
a living being have in the world
1 Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, New
described by thermodynamics, a world York, Viking Press, 1980, p.6
of ever-increasing disorder? 6 2 J.H.Rush, The Dawn of Life, New York, Signet,
1962, p. 35
Prigogine, who knows quite well that 3 Roger Lewin, "A Downward Slope to Greater
theories at the molecular level are not Diversity," Science, vol. 217, 24.9.1982, p. 1239
4 George P. Stravropoulos, "The Frontiers and
applicable to living systems, such as a
Limits of Science," American Scientist, vol. 65,
living cell, stresses this problem: November-December 1977, p.674
5 Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, p.55
The problem of biological order
6 Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of
involves the transition from the Chaos, New York, Bantam Books, 1984, p. 129
molecular activity to the super- 7 Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of
Chaos, p. 175