Complex Systems

Exploration of aspects of the science and philosophy of complex systems.

biological complexity

Complexity is a necessary characteristic of living organisms.

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Companion Sites : Gray Sites • Abiogenesis & Evolution • Algorithms of Evolution ¤ Cancer סּ Cell Biology ~ Chemistry of Life • Cyanobacteria ◊ Enzymes • Evo Devo Ơ Fat ф Immunology »» Mechanisms of Evolution ○ Molecular Biology • Origin of Life • Paleogeology • Refuting ID ǒ Serial Endosymbiosis ζζ Sleep • Stromatolites ^ Taxonomy Phylogeny • Virus • White Sites  Diagrams & Tables æ Eubacteria & Archaea • Molecule • Molecular Paths ››› Pathways ☼ Photosynthesis • Black Sites • Endosymbiosis • Organics •

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illogical deceit theory

This topic is addressed on the Godspell Follies site, so I provide only links to those items here:

Section God by Any Name
¿ God by Any Other Name is still God
¿ Refusal vs Refutation
¿ Illogical Deceit Theory
¿ Logic & Science
¿ Biological evolution
¿ Creationism vs Evolution
¿ Recapitulating recapitulation
¿ Reducible complexity

Section Fallacies of Logic *
¿ Fallacies of Logic
¿ over-extrapolating
¿ ad hominem
¿ authority
¿ composing problems
¿ denial
¿ deliberate ambiguities
¿ fallatio
¿ incredulity
¿ irrelevance
¿ proof-disproof muddles
¿ red herrings
¿ shifting the burden of proof
¿ huff & puff
¿ tu quoque

Politicization of Religion :
¿ The Wedge Document
¿ Keeping up with the Jones decision
¿ On the teaching of Pseudoscience
¿ Contradictions within idism
¿ Scripture vs Scholarship
¿ Answers to Creationist Nonsense
¿ Creationist and ID confusion about Entropy
¿ Ignorance in Kansas
¿ Ignorance in the White House
¿ Scientists comments on "ID"


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Companion Sites : Gray Sites • Abiogenesis & Evolution • Algorithms of Evolution ¤ Cancer סּ Cell Biology ~ Chemistry of Life • Cyanobacteria ◊ Enzymes • Evo Devo Ơ Fat ф Immunology »» Mechanisms of Evolution ○ Molecular Biology • Origin of Life • Paleogeology • Refuting ID ǒ Serial Endosymbiosis ζζ Sleep • Stromatolites ^ Taxonomy Phylogeny • Virus • White Sites  Diagrams & Tables æ Eubacteria & Archaea • Molecule • Molecular Paths ››› Pathways ☼ Photosynthesis • Black Sites • Endosymbiosis • Organics •

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necessary vs sufficient

Complexity is a necessary characteristic of living organisms ... necessary, but not sufficient.

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Companion Sites : Gray Sites • Abiogenesis & Evolution • Algorithms of Evolution ¤ Cancer סּ Cell Biology ~ Chemistry of Life • Cyanobacteria ◊ Enzymes • Evo Devo Ơ Fat ф Immunology »» Mechanisms of Evolution ○ Molecular Biology • Origin of Life • Paleogeology • Refuting ID ǒ Serial Endosymbiosis ζζ Sleep • Stromatolites ^ Taxonomy Phylogeny • Virus • White Sites  Diagrams & Tables æ Eubacteria & Archaea • Molecule • Molecular Paths ››› Pathways ☼ Photosynthesis • Black Sites • Endosymbiosis • Organics •

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social systems

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Companion Sites : Gray Sites • Abiogenesis & Evolution • Algorithms of Evolution ¤ Cancer סּ Cell Biology ~ Chemistry of Life • Cyanobacteria ◊ Enzymes • Evo Devo Ơ Fat ф Immunology »» Mechanisms of Evolution ○ Molecular Biology • Origin of Life • Paleogeology • Refuting ID ǒ Serial Endosymbiosis ζζ Sleep • Stromatolites ^ Taxonomy Phylogeny • Virus • White Sites  Diagrams & Tables æ Eubacteria & Archaea • Molecule • Molecular Paths ››› Pathways ☼ Photosynthesis • Black Sites • Endosymbiosis • Organics •

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Spinoza's God

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Companion Sites : Gray Sites • Abiogenesis & Evolution • Algorithms of Evolution ¤ Cancer סּ Cell Biology ~ Chemistry of Life • Cyanobacteria ◊ Enzymes • Evo Devo Ơ Fat ф Immunology »» Mechanisms of Evolution ○ Molecular Biology • Origin of Life • Paleogeology • Refuting ID ǒ Serial Endosymbiosis ζζ Sleep • Stromatolites ^ Taxonomy Phylogeny • Virus • White Sites  Diagrams & Tables æ Eubacteria & Archaea • Molecule • Molecular Paths ››› Pathways ☼ Photosynthesis • Black Sites • Endosymbiosis • Organics •

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systems theory

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