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To: Greg o the Navy; Ronaldus Magnus Reagan

My 2 cents for tonight..... Molecular life manifests the same way that crystals organize. Creationist logic should dictate that God creates crystals directly, not by natural processes.


18 posted on 02/11/2006 9:06:19 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: SteveMcKing
My 2 cents for tonight..... Molecular life manifests the same way that crystals organize.

That's incorrect. Crystals form because they are the energetically preferred equilibrium configuration under a set of static or quasistatic conditions.

Biomolecular processes require a flow of energy, and may be considered as an example of structures formed in "systems driven far from equilibrium". As such they are analogous to river meanders and the many structures which form on the sun, such as sunspots, granules, spicules and hedgerows.

102 posted on 02/11/2006 10:46:22 PM PST by dr_lew
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