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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

God enough

We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
By Steve Paulson

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:31 PM

    At some point in the future, the sun will begin to exhaust the hydrogen which fuels

    the gigantic fusion furnace that is Sol. The sun will convert to a red giant and expand to the present orbit of Mars. Earth will be incinerated. All life as we know it will cease.

    As Stephen Hawking has pointed out, if man does not leave Earth, then we are all doomed. So why does Kauffman need to make life sacred? Can't it just be an interesting, if irrelevant, digression from the overall progression of the Universe into entropy?

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