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Discovering Order In What Was Assumed To Be Random...

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I found this piece from Stanford to be fascinating, and not without happy implications:

Scientific discoveries often arise from noticing the unexpected. Such was the case when Stanford researchers, studying a tiny device that has become increasingly important in disease diagnostics and drug discovery, observed the surprising way it funneled thousands of water droplets into an orderly single file, squeezing them drop by drop, out the tip of the device.

Instead of occurring randomly, the droplets followed a predictable pattern. These observations led graduate student Ya Gai and Sindy K. Y. Tang, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, to deduce mathematical rules and understand why such rules exist. The work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It all started with an effort to design tiny devices called microfluidic chips, designed to automate and expedite biomedical research. In the past, lab experiments involved using a dropper to deposit biological specimens into a test tube for observation. But microfluidic devices work much more efficiently. About the size of a postage stamp, they are made of silicone containing many thin channels through which researchers can pump tiny amounts of fluids. The devices allow researchers to place a specimen into a droplet of water surrounded by a thin film of oil. That droplet becomes the test tube. The oily film keeps each droplet and specimen separate.......

.......“While studying the flow physics of the droplets in the funnel, we observed that, contrary to our expectations, the droplets juggle past each other in a very orderly manner as they squeeze from the wide end to the narrow end of the funnel, which can fit only one drop at a time,” Tang said.


Complete text: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/10/10/order-process-previously-assumed-random/


The first implication is that where we often perceive chaos, upon closer inspection, turns out to be anything but, and is in fact a very structured and orderly process. But where does this order come from?


"Instead of occurring randomly, the droplets followed a predictable pattern".
In other words, the droplets, as if directed to, form a queue. Now, when you line up for something, whether it be theater tickets or a flu shot, you do so because it's a social norm, and because your brain tells you to. When such order exists in the machines, devices and/or systems we humans create, it's by design -our design. So, the obvious question becomes, where does the intelligence behind the aligning of the droplets....... come from?

It's easy to answer that reflexively and without much thought, but this one might be worth the trip down the rabbit hole.......
 

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Follow-Up: Our Ordered Universe




Carl Sagan believed in an ordered universe

The idea that there is order in the universe is so obvious that I thought it was universally accepted. However, I recently commented on a forum that the universe is ordered; I was surprised to find opposition. I wrote, “Consider the universe — is it chaotic or is it ordered? Science demonstrates that the universe is ordered. E=MC2 is a formula that is both simple yet complex. If the universe is chaotic, then this formula would be meaningless. Scientists make discoveries about the universe because it is ordered. Are we simply lucky to have an ordered universe? Or is it more logical that the universe is ordered due to intelligent design? Does order in a room come by random chance or does it come by effort and intelligence? Students need to be able to consider both possibilities.”

One person responded to my comments with several paragraphs including the statement, “Here’s a clue: the universe is chaotic and the formula is valid.” I wrote back claiming that Carl Sagan would disagree with that statement and quoted from a humanist web site which states, “Sagan also pointed out numerous times that ‘the order of the Universe is not an assumption; it is an observed fact’. And that the simplest definition of science is the search for rules — which is, in turn, the only possible way to understand our vast and complex Universe. Sagan admitted that ‘human beings are, understandably, highly motivated to find regularities, natural laws…’ The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out'”.[2]

For Sagan the universe displaying order was a big deal to him evidenced by naming his book and video series Cosmos. Sagan wrote, “Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.”[3] Evidence for order is observed in mathematics, physics, and likely every field of science.

Order in the universe leads us to ask, who or what ordered the universe, God or nothing. Evolutionists are forced by their a priori commitment to “. . . a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive.” [4] However, order does not come from nothing. It comes from an organizer with intelligence. So should Intelligent Design be disqualified as scientific simply because the obvious conclusion of universal order is God instead of nothing? No! Should the “God cause” be marginalized as religious while the “nothing cause” is given the scientific seal of approval? No! Either both are scientific possibilities or neither is, so let’s act consistently while educating our youth.

It is no wonder that most people still view God as the source of their being. When an average person looks at the arguments in favor of creation, he or she quickly concludes that creation arguments are logical and persuasive. It is both scientific and commonsense to realize that organization requires an organizer, design requires a designer and information as in DNA requires an author. Evolutionists are acting like the swindlers in the proverbial Emperor’s New Clothes. Most Americans are not buying the illogical-unscientific idea that order, design and intelligence came from nothing but time and chance.

Jim Bendewald




 
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