John Habgood, when Archbishop of York, wrote a book "Faith and Uncertainty" with the following passage in it.
..in the world of nature, it may be that the rules of organisation are comparatively simple, if only we knew what they were. We see them operating in living organisms every time a set of genes gives rise to the enormously complex finished product......
...built into the way things are, there are not only vast possibilities for freedom and creativity, but also certain inherent rules and structures which channel this creativity away from relapsing into chaos, and towards greater complexity and order."
He has been reading books on complex adaptive systems, and for more information we could subscribe to Complexity Digest once a week comdig.org
It is nice seeing a clergyman taking, perhaps, a modern view towards biology. There seems to be hope for us all, pace Richard Dawkins.
"Complexity emerges at the interface between order and chaos," is one modern way of putting this insight.
reference ISBN 0-232-52227-8 Darton, Longman and Todd, 1997
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