>In other words, systems that
>self-organize all by themselves suggest that the end product was
>in fact the result of a design built right into the very laws of
>nature itself.
>
Agreed.
However, this way of looking at the mechanisms of nature could lead to a
very mechanistic -- deistic -- view of how nature proceeds, unless another
aspect of chaos is duly considered. Chaos is also defined as sensitive
dependence on initial conditions. It's fairly easy to demonstrate chaotic
systems in which a vanishingly small variation in initial conditions, or a
vanishingly small disturbance as the system evolves causes significant
differences later. But by the time these differences are noted, their
cause has quite literally become lost in the noise. Thus a mechanism
exists whereby God can determine the behavior of objects in nature without
His interaction with nature being seen as a disturbance.
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