Q&A: Physico-Theological
Physico-Theological
Question
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If the laws had no potential for biology (through evolution), but only for physics and chemistry, would there still be an argument from complexity?
Answer
Yes, but the argument would be weaker. Of course, there would be no one to think of that argument, because there would be no living creatures.
Of course, the question is not well defined, because our physics and chemistry do allow for biology. You mean other laws, which I would also call physics and chemistry. But that is not well delimited, because the complexity of those laws would be different from the laws of our physics (which allow biology).
Discussion on Answer
Today it is already fairly clear that the laws of biology do not require anything beyond physics and chemistry. Even so, I don’t think this is yet completely clear.
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Was the biological knowledge in the period of the Sages sufficient for a strong argument or a weak one?
I don’t think knowledge is necessary. But the strength of the argument depends on the knowledge.
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For someone who holds that biology has a separate force, vitalism, could those same laws exist?