You are confusing complexity with order. You are jumping to the "God is the answer" too quickly. But here we go:
Not at all. There are many things that can be added to the mix. I simply used complexity to get the understanding across. Complexity fits, but order does not. Why doesn't order fit? Because the greater the complexity, the less the evenness throughout, meaning the appearance of less order. But cause and effect are still acting on everything, meaning that there is complete order in the complex and the simple.
Everything that science has found in nature and the universe so far, has one or more causes that brought it into existence in the form that it exists in. In fact, the greater the scientist, the more he is out to find the "why's" of anything and everything.
Why does it exist? What caused it to exist this way? What are the causes that made it happen?
Answer: Yes. Scientists study the why?
In fact, we are so into finding out the cause of things, that we can't even conceive of anything not having a cause. Everything has a cause, and the cause has a cause, and that cause has a cause, etc., etc.
Answer: Yes
This brings us to entropy. Entropy at its base and core suggests everything is in dispersal mode. Everything is trying to diffuse itself evenly and equaly throughout all space/time. While there is much theoretical thinking about entropy, nobody has found anything that could be considered reverse entropy.
Answer: Yes. Entropy cannot decrease.
If entropy had existed forever, everything would have been dispersed and diffused long ago. But we know that this is not the case.
Answer: Entropy is a measure of randomness, or disorder. This is where you are making a mistake. Entropy could be increasing until universe exists.
There is no randomness or disorder. Cause and effect are acting perfectly. We are so extremely remote in our ability to see most of the complexity, that we use the randomness idea to try to guess things about the complexity. Quantum Mechanics is simply glorified probability. Probability has to do with randomness, and the only reason we use it is because we can't see the complexity. The thing we call randomness is not really randomness at all. It is glorified guesswork.
Our universe was created 14 billion years ago, entropy is increasing ever since. Not sure what your point is.
Nobody knows the age of the universe. Anybody who suggests that the universe is 14 billion years old, is basing it on theory or guesswork. Theory should not be considered fact until it is proven.
How do we know? Because complexity exists. Thus, entropy must have had a beginning... because it couldn't have existed forever. But we don't see anything that looks like a beginning of entropy. Check with science. Science says this.
Answer: I think you are confusing complexity with order. Big-Bang theory is the best we can do to explain how it all started.
Again, cause and effect is acting throughout. Cause and effect keeps order throughout. Cause and effect keeps some of the order to be complex, and some of it to be simple.
Big Bang Theory might be the best theory we have. It is not fact. Until it is proven, it should be part of the realm of fiction. Even if Big Bang were proven to be possible, it still would not have been proven to exist.
IF, if, if, if Big Bang is true, then Big Bang is highly intelligent. Why? Because it caused throughout many ages of cause and effect, intelligence in mankind... in addition to seeing to it that the universe remained orderly through cause and effect for all this time. Starting to sound like God a little.
Complexity is the antithesis of entropy. Entropy is trying to break down complexity. Like as there must have been a beginning to entropy, that beginning must have had much higher complexity than we see around today.
Answer: Not really. Entropy is a measure of randomness or disorder of the system. Again it brings us to big-bang theory. Yes, in the beginning entropy was zero or close it it.
Actually, there is no randomness. Cause and effect don't allow for disorder. Because of the complexity, we in our inability, think that we see randomness. There isn't really randomness or disorder.
One of the main features that we see in complexity is, nothing that is more complex comes about because of, or from, something less complex.
Answer: Now, this is just not true. Our bodies evolved from less complicated life forms. Once AI takes off, you'll see how less complex life forms can create more complicated life forms.
Since entropy is a reduction in complexity, and since entropy acts throughout, only in the face of a reducing of complexity in one area, is there an increase in complexity in some other area. And the increase in complexity never reaches the height of complexity that was in the area of reduced complexity that created it.
The point is, there is no evidence that our bodies evolved, period. Even though there might be some form of operation called evolution, there is no clear method for going from the inanimate all the way to our bodies. But, even if we had a complete method, there is no way to determine if that was the thing that truly happened. Why not? There might be many other evolution methods... and the creation story might be right. This is why evolution is a theory. We simply don't know for sure.
For example. A highly complex snowflake seems to come from a much less complex batch of water molecules. Yet, the conditions of temperature and air movements and dust in the air and solar energy, are actually way more complex than the snowflake that they form out of the less complex water.
Answer: Not sure what you mean. Snowflakes are formed by a natural process.
Snowflakes are simple water transformed into complex snowflakes. This looks like simplicity transforming into complexity. The reason why it is not simplicity transforming into complexity is, there are many complex processes causing simple water to form the complex snowflake.
The point is, there is something that is so extremely complex,
Answer: Prove it. You stated that there is something so extremely complex. I ask you to prove it it exist. Just because 14 billion years ago our universe
was started with near zero entropy does not mean God created it. As a matter of fact, if God had interacted with our universe, his entropy would increase
the moment he put his nose into our universe.
Okay. Let's assume the theory of a 14 billion year old universe is correct. The intelligence of mankind is here, 14 billion years after the beginning. Whatever started the universe, took a handful of "gravel," and scattered it so that it would interact among itself to produce intelligence after 14 billion years.
Let's see you do that. Let's see any person do that. Intelligence is complex. No intelligence is simple. As we have been saying above, the only way to get complexity from something simple is to have something more complex cause it.
In addition, look at the vastness of universal complexity. Whatever scattered the materials of the universe at the beginning, to create such complexity through cause and effect, would be the expert pool/billiards player of all time.
that it could form the complexity of the mind of man,
Answer: Human mind is a process of millions of years of evolution. No evidence that supernatural force was involved. But there is strong physical evidence supporting evolution.
Again, evolution is theory. Theory means that it is not necessarily fact. Thus you can't factually say that the human mind has evolution behind it. However, the things that I have been showing you regarding science FACT, prove that there is great Intelligence behind the making of mankind and everything else.
using universal cause and effect, across multitudes of years, in the face of all-pervading entropy, that brought this whole "thing" into existence.
Answer: Big-bang started our universe. Not sure what is your point.
Since Big Bang is theory, and theory is not fact until it is proven fact, believers in Big Bang have themselves a Big Bang of a religion.
From the review at the website you listed:
One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing.
Notice the words "new theories." Theories are fun, intriguing things that might be great ideas, but are not known to be facts. People can invent theories all day long. But the facts:
1. cause and effect;
2. complex universe;
3. universal entropy;
when combined prove the existence of a "Thing" that matches the definition of God.
