"We already have a well-established law that shows us how order can decrease in a physical system.
Q: But is there a law that explains an increase in order?
Scientists have been looking for “nature’s missing law” for a while,
and while they might be asking the right questions, their training in a bottom-up reductionist framework is leading them to the wrong answers.
Dembski characterizes the law of conservation of information not as a positive law that explains how complex order arises but as a proscriptive or negative generalization that defines what naturalistic processes cannot achieve.
Much like the Second Law of Thermodynamics forbids the creation of perpetual motion machines, Dembski’s law asserts that you cannot get something for nothing when it comes to the information required for life. He argues that materialistic attempts to find a bottom-up law of formation are fundamentally flawed because they attempt to increase the probability of a functional outcome by introducing an amplifier, or mechanism, yet they fail to account for the extreme improbability of that mechanism itself."
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