Q&A: The Argument from the Laws
The Argument from the Laws
Question
The Rabbi explains that the challenge from evolution doesn't really exist because of the argument from the laws, which says that evolution too is made up of laws that someone had to create (God). Why can't one say that such laws just happened to emerge and we emerged from them, and if there had been different laws then demons and fairies would have emerged? What is special about us and about the world today that makes these count as complex laws?
Answer
Hello Arie, I explained this in the third notebook, in the article on evolution, and also in my book. The definition of entropy is objective, and living creatures have low entropy, meaning they are special. That is objective. The probability that laws capable of producing complex beings would come into existence is tiny. Besides, I am not aware of mechanisms for the spontaneous emergence of laws.
See every star in the universe—have creatures with complexity like ours arisen on it? According to your approach, complex beings of some kind should arise everywhere, no? If there are no conditions there for the formation of biological life, then let other kinds of complexity arise. Have such things arisen? Absolutely not. Thus it is proven.