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emerge. This im por tant dif fer ence is prob a bil i ties of sur viv al and re pro duc -
de scribed by the ev o lu tion ist sci en - tion.
tist Jeffrey Wicken:
The weak est point in this ex pla na tion
"Organized" sys tems are to be care ful - of life's or i gin is the great com plex i ty
ly dis tin guished from "or dered" sys - of the in i tial en ti ty which must form,
tems. Neither kind of sys tem is "ran - ap par ent ly by ran dom fluc tu a tions, be -
dom," but where as or dered sys tems are fore nat u ral se lec tion can take over. 218
gen er at ed ac cord ing to sim ple al go -
rithms and there fore lack com plex i ty,
or ga nized sys tems must be as sem bled "SELF-ORGANIZATION"
el e ment by el e ment ac cord ing to an ex -
NONSENSE, THE
ter nal "wir ing di a gram" with a high
Evolutionists use the con cept of
in for ma tion con tent . . . Organization,
then, is func tion al com plex i ty and car - self-or gan i za tion to claim that in an i -
ries in for ma tion. 217 mate mat ter can so or ga nize it self as
to pro duce a liv ing en ti ty. This be lief
In their book The Mystery of
fla grant ly ig nores all ex per i ments
Life's Origin, the American sci en tists
and ob ser va tions that have shown
Thaxton, Bradley and Olsen clar i fy
that mat ter pos sess es no such abil i ty.
the is sue:
Sir Fred Hoyle, the fa mous British
The wide spread rec og ni tion of the se -
as tron o mer and math e ma ti cian, de -
vere im prob a bil i ty that self-re pli cat ing
scribes how mat ter can not spon ta ne -
or gan isms could have formed from
ous ly give rise to life with an ex am -
pure ly ran dom in ter ac tions has led to a
great deal of spec u la tion—spec u la tion ple:
that some or gan iz ing prin ci ple must To press the mat ter fur ther, if there
have been in volved. In the com pa ny of were a ba sic prin ci ple of mat ter which
many oth ers, Crick has con sid ered that some how drove or gan ic sys tems to -
the neo-Darwinian mech a nism of nat - ward life, its ex is tence should eas i ly be
u ral se lec tion might pro vide the an - de mon stra ble in the lab o ra to ry. One
swer. An en ti ty ca pa ble of self-rep li ca - could, for in stance, take a swim ming
tion is nec es sa ry, how e ver, be fore nat - [pool] to rep re sent the pri mor di al soup.
u ral se lec tion can op er ate. Only then Fill it with any chem i cals of a non-bi o -
could chan ges re sult via mu ta tions log i cal na ture you please. Pump any
and en vi ron men tal pres sures which gas es over it, or through it, you please,
might in turn bring about the dom i - and shine any kind of ra di a tion on it
nance of en ti ties with the great est that takes your fan cy. Let the ex per i -

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