Q&A: Complexity
Complexity
Question
With God’s help,
Have a good week,
You based the entire physico-theological proof on the fact that we see complexity in the world. My question is: what proves complexity? Seemingly, there are also things in our world that are not perfect. For example, the very fact that a person can be sick seemingly proves that the body is not sophisticated enough to heal itself from every disease. There are strange people in the world with mental and physical problems, and perhaps the conclusion that the world is complex is subjective/synthetic, because we do not know of anything else that is more complex, sophisticated, precise, and complete. After all, even if, heaven forbid, the world had been created blindly, we would still see some minimal degree of complexity, or alternatively we could find some kind of complexity in it, and then because of that we would say that it was created intentionally. If so, this becomes a proof that cannot be refuted, and as you brought from Karl Popper (if I remember correctly), any proof that has no possible refutation is not a proof.
I would be happy for your answer or for a reference to things you have written on the subject.
Answer
I think this question has already come up on the site dozens of times. Nobody said the world is perfect. The claim is that it is complex, and that alone is enough to argue that probabilistically it is unlikely that this happened on its own. If you throw a die a thousand times and get 998 sixes and two ones, that is not a perfect result, but it is enough to say that it did not happen by chance.
Discussion on Answer
Definitely. If a simple or random series of results came up on the die, nobody would say that it was special. As I explained in the booklet, contrary to what people usually think, complexity is measured by objective criteria (entropy).
Thank you,
I’ll look on the site as well.
Just in case this hasn’t been asked: in what situation would we say that the world is not complex? Is there such a situation? So that this will become a claim that can be refuted.