Let there be Order
| February 11, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
The concept of self-organization in biology has long been applied in behavioural studies of animals such as fish, ants and fireflies. Now, cell and developmental biologists are using similar concepts to explore how patterns are generated in cells and tissues.
It is always tempting to seek common mechanistic foundations for different biological phenomena. This approach should be used carefully because biological mechanisms are remarkably diverse, but increasing evidence suggests that the principle of self-organization is broadly applicable. Unlike human-made machines, biological machines must be sufficiently dynamic and flexible to respond to their external and internal environments, and they must rely on themselves to generate order. The challenge for researchers is to look beyond our usual engineering principles and to appreciate the less familiar logic of biological organization.
Benjamin S. Glick NATURE CELL BIOLOGY VOLUME 9 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2007 p132
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Ummm, wow. Let me check the Origins of Life Prize Judges list for the request of papers on FSC.
http://lifeorigin.org/rul_judg.htm
Nope, Glick is not on the list. Apparently he missed the Trevors and Abel’s paper on “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and their relevance to biopolymeric information”.
Prof. Jeffery Schwartz has some interesting comments out now…
While he holds onto evolutionary theory, like Dr. MacNeil he at least understands the severity of problems with current thinking in the following statement.
That’s much to logical. He’s beginning to think like an engineer or designer. Certainly Glick will need to talk to him personally regarding the “less familiar logic of biological organizatoin” in “order” that current thinking is brought back into alignment with those who know.
Bio-logical – in the NDE paradigm is a single word inter-syllable contradiction. A multi-syllable oxymoron if there ever was one based upon unguided, unpurposed events of “self-organization”.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_.....020807.php
Schwartz’s paper with Prof of Biochemistry Bruno Maresca appears in Bio-”logical” Theory Feb 9th.
I’d like a Spicy Chicken sandwich, no tomatoe, but add onion.
When Glick says “Unlike human-made machines, biological machines” he is saying that biological machines are more complex because “they must be sufficiently dynamic and flexible to respond to their external and internal environments” any engineer who is able to design such a system will become very famous and rich.
Glick’s claim that molecular machines “must rely on themselves to generate order” is where we differ from him. What he is primarily considering is not the origin of the machines themselves, but rather that they apparently “self organize” with other molecular machines in the performance of their collective cooperative function. This is the mystery they are contemplating.
I would add to his “challenge for researchers to look beyond our usual engineering principles and to appreciate the less familiar logic of biological organization.” that the “challenge for researchers is to look beyond our usual Darwinian principles and to appreciate the less familiar logic of intelligent biological organization and complexity”
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I’ve always said that human engineers will catch up with nature’s designer when they can build an airplane that is self-repairing, self-replicating, and is constructed from and fueled with nothing but sunflower seeds.
Dave, ha!
Funny, but true. Not to mention navigation from point to point or roundtrips without any external help except nature.