Instructions are necessary to produce order

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Further Reading

Claim

Increasing order is possible, locally and temporarily, only if there is a program to direct growth and a power converter.

Source

• Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 43-45.

Responses

1. One example of establishment of order without any set of instructions is breaks in symmetry which occur during phase transitions: in a liquid or vapour, there is no preferred direction, but during the process of freezing or the formation of frost, some directions become preferred over others due to a seeding process in an unstable system.
2. The formation of a hurricane from unstable weather conditions represents the establishment of order without any set of instructions.
3. Dissipative structures (e.g., unstable chemical systems which are distant from thermodynamical equilibrium -- such as "chemical clocks" -- and which generate entropy, but dissipate more entropy into their environment than they generate) are capable of emergent order, creating temporal and spatial structure, where a fluctuation existing at a microscopic level becomes amplified through a positive feedback loop due to system-wide instability -- and do so without any prior set of instructions.
4. In this context, the terms "program" and "power converter" are undefined, and in the absence of clarification, this claim is meaningless gibberish.
5. This claim is absolutely false, given as how crystals are fully capable of growing without any need of instructions for guidance.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Vacuous Explanation (two unelaborated terms replace one)

Further Reading

• Kauffman, Stuart A., 1993. The Origins of Order, Oxford U. Press.