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→On Maxwell and Evolution: Maybe we need to look harder sometimes
If anyone wishes to change it to something else, I strongly suggest that they have a citation of something written by Maxwell that applies to the particular type of evolution in question (if it is about biology, then about biology - Darwin didn't make any claim that molecules had any application to his work in the Origin of Species).
If anyone wishes to change it to something else, I strongly suggest that they have a citation of something written by Maxwell that applies to the particular type of evolution in question (if it is about biology, then about biology - Darwin didn't make any claim that molecules had any application to his work in the Origin of Species).
--[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 13:10, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
--[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 13:10, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
:It took me less than 15 minutes to find this:
In the heavens we discover by their light, and by their light alone, stars so distant from each other that no
material thing can ever have passed from one to another; [359] and yet this light, which is to us the sole evidence
of the existence of these distant worlds, tells us also that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds as
those which we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its
vibrations in precisely the same time.
Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as
distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the double royal cubit of the temple of Karnac.
No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily
implies continuous change, and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction.
None of the processes of Nature, since the time when Nature began, have produced the slightest difference in
the properties of any molecule. We are therefore unable to ascribe either the existence of the molecules or the
identity of their properties to any of the causes which we call natural.
On the other hand, the exact equality of each molecule to all others [http://www.sonnetusa.com/bio/maxbio.pdf]