Chance and necessity
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1997-08-28
- Retrieved
- Jun 12, 2012
- ISBN
- 5ie7QgAACA
2 memes from this reference
Evolution and Entropy are Irreversible
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon…
Natural Selection is Not Chance
Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection could quite unaided have drawn all the music of the biosphere. Indeed natural selection operates upon the products of chance and knows no other nourishment; but it operates in a domain…