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I don't think that word means what you think it means. The principle of evolution by natural selection is logical, but it isn't logic.
I can't make sense of this; all dynamical systems 'react to inputs' to 'create outputs', including all natural systems, living and non-living.
Of course it could - if there was some reason to think there was an 'original program' that had an 'adaptive system written into it'. But there isn't.
No, we don't assume that. Magic does not appear to be involved (i.e. the laws of physics apply).
You're assuming God and its creation there, but no, all dynamic systems from galaxies to man-made machines, work on the same principles - increasing entropy by dissipating energy; mimicry not relevant, it all uses the same principles.
Genetics being the hard/permanent information, and then various chemical actions and reactions, and frequencies such as electro/chemical frequencies of the brain for instance, and I'm sure there are more instances of frequencies, both chemical and electric. which make up the 'natural' logic in which all things function,
I am trying to point out that there is intelligent design in every system, and that random chance cannot start anything, because everything has a start, and an end, the logic involved in the universe points to order and not chaos, things can start with order and end in chaos, but not the other way around, you can make a firecracker that will explode but you can not make an explosion create a firecracker. A simple bacteria has complex systems within it and it behaves according to the programming with which it was designed, its behavior is recorded inside it and that behavior is passed on to the following generations through copies of information that is passed on. Even a simple thing like a bacteria cannot start from chemicals and raw materials, that would mean that a complex system would be creating and starting itself, that's why the whole idea of evolution when taken to its logical conclusions creates absurdities and conundrums pertaining to beginnings and endings. If there are flaws in the design it only proves that the design is running down so to speak, not getting better.
Unsupported assertion. I can't take it seriously unless you can support it, preferably with persuasive evidence.
I don't know who told you this, but it's not correct. There's a whole field of science based on how order arises out of disorder - much of it involving self-assembly. Familiar examples are crystals that self-assemble from randomly distributed ions in solution, or snowflakes self-assembling as random water vapour molecules freeze onto a seed particle. Some organic molecules, such as lipids, spontaneously form sheets and vesicles from solution.
An example of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, a statistical rule. It's easy to find such examples, but it doesn't mean order cannot arise out of disorder (see self-assembly above). Entropy (roughly disorder) always increases over time in isolated systems, but most systems we deal with aren't isolated, and entropy can decrease locally at the expense of an overall increase. So the sun is a source of low entropy energy that can drive systems on Earth from disorder to order at the expense of an overall increase in entropy (e.g. thermal radiation from Earth).
I'd agree with that, with the caveat that the 'designer' is the evolutionary process which 'programs' it by repeatedly selecting the most successful variants from a large number of random variations (i.e. killing off unsuccessful variants).
I've already shown that complex systems can self-assemble, so there's no reason to deny that of life itself. Of course, bacteria, like all other life on Earth, have had over 3.5 billion years of evolutionary development; the earliest life would have been relatively simple replicating molecules.
Frequency is just the rate at which something occurs, how it is relevant?
For instance take a woman's cycle, this complex cycle would suggest biological sample rates, and timing, or rather frequencies and refresh rates, which would suggest biological logic or 'programming', and many other systems of the body can be assessed in this way, if a person cares to examine the universe in a 'mechanical' sense. Because in a sense the universe and all it contains can be perceived as a very complex, finely tuned machine, in which chance is provided for as a part of the programming.
You seem fixated on 'programming'. Biological cycles are based on biological clocks, sometimes adjusted by the light & dark changes between day & night (circadian clocks). Many simple creatures orient or move according to light & dark cycles, tidal cycles, or lunar cycles, and the mechanism by which they do so have been explained - they use biochemical oscillators, sequences of chemical reactions that periodically repeat, such as oxidation–reduction cycles of peroxiredoxin proteins. In more complex creatures like mammals, these cycles are adjusted and managed via genetic feedback loops.
You can call it a machine, and claim it works by programming designed into it, but that doesn't change the fact that, given the fundamental laws of physics we observe in the universe, and a high-energy, low-entropy, start to the universe as we know it, the rest of what you call a 'machine' emerges quite naturally, with no need for explicit design or programming. The strong and weak nuclear forces hold together the elementary particles that make up the elements, the electromagnetic force binds elements into compounds, and gravity pulls it all together on a large scale, into galaxies, stars, and planets.
Everyone has the need to believe in something whether it be Intelligent Chaos or Purposeful Created Order, My personal opinion can only be formulated from my own personal assessment of what I feel to be true, which is the right of all beings to do. I rather think that all of this is a 'Matrix' so to speak, and that it is a purposeful Creation, with even the atomic structure being the interface between the Spiritual and the Physical, which is being thoughtfully maintained moment to moment by a Supreme Being for a very great purpose, and all of the systems that exist in the Universe from small to the great exist according to His design. I say this not to offend anyone, but to simply state my perception that all people have a right to, and I respect everyone's viewpoint, and think that people who have commented have made very interesting observations. This world is a very fascinating place and I know we will continue to discover truths as we go along. The Bible says that 'We exist in Him', and when I read this I always get the picture that the Universe is like a 'Bubble' that exists inside Him. We all have to believe in something, because something cannot come from nothing unless something does it.
Not everyone needs to believe like that. Many people feel the need to acknowledge uncertainty.
As long as you can distinguish between what is likely to be true and what is wishful thinking or fantasy.
Cool story.
That's a non-sequitur - and a deepity of Chopra-esque proportions (if something does it, it hasn't come from nothing... and no, we don't all have to believe in something).
We create fantasy with digital machines and pixels, is it so impossible to believe that a Supreme Being is creating a physical dimension with atoms in much the same way? Every good story has some elements of truth in it, that's what makes it a good story, I suppose it just depends on which pill you choose to take. But this is more a philosophy statement than biological science. Though I suppose an atom could be perceived as a 5> dimensional pixel in that sense, and what powers it?
Takes a lot of faith to believe in nothing
