Watched a superb documentary yesterday, "The Secret Life of Chaos.". It showed how the separate, but complementary work of three different mathematicians and physicists from different parts of the world have created a clear and provable picture of organizing principles of physical reality. Those principles state the following:
From sameness eventually comes differentiation.
From differentiation comes separate , but often interrelated organizations. Examples include galaxies, gas clouds. and individual stars for one example. Another is ecosystems, complex biological organisms and their body structures , and microbes.
Within organized systems, unpredictable, random variations will inevitably occur which cannot be predicted in form, location or time.
Those variations will create temporary chaos in the system in which it occurs, and will inevitably lead to he formation of an adapted organization. If that organization functions well in the environment in which it exists, it will persist. If, the organization will failure to match will leader the structure of go out of existence -- die, implode, explode, disintegrate.
That is so simple, so profound, and so beautiful. It simply says that the organizing principle of all reality -- physical or biological -- is evolution. That is not theory, but fact. To me, to deny that is to deny basic reality.