Comments on: First blog, first post http://www.thylibertyinlaw.com/blog/2008/04/29/first-blog-first-post/ Oh Beautiful for Heroes Proved in Liberating Strife Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:38:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.thylibertyinlaw.com/blog/2008/04/29/first-blog-first-post/comment-page-1/#comment-7 admin Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:52:15 +0000 http://www.thylibertyinlaw.com/blog/?p=5#comment-7 Thank you, I'm very happy if you have found any part of these posts to be thought-provoking. As to your question, I don't believe it is possible for an intelligent system to exist randomly, simply because if it is a system, it is subject to laws that define its function; if the laws are violated, it no longer functions as a system hence the system does not exist. Hopefully I am understanding your question correctly, in the sense that you are asking whether darkness could be defined as a random intelligent system as compared with light being defined as an ordered intelligent system (since, as you said, light can only be defined in relation to dark). Coincidently, this very subject is included in the upcoming post. Light is a system defined by law, it is matter acted upon by gravity in such a way that electromagnetic radiation is produced which at specific frequencies can be observed by the human eye. Darkness, however, is the absence of light. This means that either there is no matter in the space where there is not light (a vacuum) or the matter in a space that is not producing light does not do so because it is not organized into the system which by law results in light production. Basically, this means that darkness is a negation of light; light is a system that exists according to law, and darkness is the negation of that system, or something that does not obey the laws of the system in question. Which means, in my estimation, that darkness is not a system. Does that address your question or am I reading it incorrectly? Thank you, I’m very happy if you have found any part of these posts to be thought-provoking. As to your question, I don’t believe it is possible for an intelligent system to exist randomly, simply because if it is a system, it is subject to laws that define its function; if the laws are violated, it no longer functions as a system hence the system does not exist. Hopefully I am understanding your question correctly, in the sense that you are asking whether darkness could be defined as a random intelligent system as compared with light being defined as an ordered intelligent system (since, as you said, light can only be defined in relation to dark). Coincidently, this very subject is included in the upcoming post. Light is a system defined by law, it is matter acted upon by gravity in such a way that electromagnetic radiation is produced which at specific frequencies can be observed by the human eye. Darkness, however, is the absence of light. This means that either there is no matter in the space where there is not light (a vacuum) or the matter in a space that is not producing light does not do so because it is not organized into the system which by law results in light production.

Basically, this means that darkness is a negation of light; light is a system that exists according to law, and darkness is the negation of that system, or something that does not obey the laws of the system in question. Which means, in my estimation, that darkness is not a system. Does that address your question or am I reading it incorrectly?

]]> By: Robb Caffery http://www.thylibertyinlaw.com/blog/2008/04/29/first-blog-first-post/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Robb Caffery Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:43:17 +0000 http://www.thylibertyinlaw.com/blog/?p=5#comment-6 This is the finest exposition I've ever read on this subject, bar none. The author has gone to great lengths to frame the debate between 'evolution' and 'intelligent design' in a most intelligent way. The only question I would ask is if it's possible for an 'intelligent system' to exist randomly, or, to put it another way, does not order require disorder (else what are you comparing it with to define it as order)? So without dark, there is no light, and vice versa. There is a very subtle distinction to be made here---light can only be defined in relation to dark. Thanks again for a very thought-provoking article! This is the finest exposition I’ve ever read on this subject, bar none. The author has gone to great lengths to frame the debate between ‘evolution’ and ‘intelligent design’ in a most intelligent way. The only question I would ask is if it’s possible for an ‘intelligent system’ to exist randomly, or, to put it another way, does not order require disorder (else what are you comparing it with to define it as order)? So without dark, there is no light, and vice versa. There is a very subtle distinction to be made here—light can only be defined in relation to dark.
Thanks again for a very thought-provoking article!

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