The self-organizing cosmos and the design argument for God. The self-organizing cosmos. The beauty, complexity and order of nature are not the work of a designer deity. Rayleigh-Benard convection cells in a heated liquid. The design argument for God.
Most people recognize the breathtaking beauty, order and complexity of nature and the cosmos.
Ever since Plato and Aristotle, this has been one of the most common arguments for the existence of a God or gods. In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that . This mechanism being observed, the inference . . What the design argument cannot prove. If valid, the design argument would prove only that the cosmos had a designer.