Cloudscape

In creativity, we should apply the same principle nature does, that of natural selection. Quantity should come first, quality afterwards.

Many people lost their faith in God because of the Theory of Evolution. How ironic that this very same theory would indicate the existence of a God. Bacteria, animals, men, gods, God. It's only a next step. Everything grows over time, and in the Universe has existed for an infinitely long time; thus, it is only natural that the Universe itself must be perfect - we only do not see it.

Older chromosomes have more base pairs: the Y-chromosome has 50 million bases in 231 genes, the least of any known chromosome, while the X-chromosome has 150 million bases in 1184 genes, placing it between the seventh and eight chromosome -- the Y chromosome is much younger because males haven't been around as long as females, what with asexual reproduction. A possible explanation that older chromosomes have more base pairs is that the newer chrosomes removed redundant DNA. Perhaps, the number of genes of a chromosome is proportional to its age, and we can calculate, approximately, how old a chromosome is based on this. We can then know when the X- and Y-chromosomes arose, and therefore when femininity and masculinity arose - in the sense we know today.

Theory of evolution is applicable not only to genetics, but to any multiplex informational system, notably memetics. The culture of our society is to memetics what the gene pool of our race is to genetics. Both obey very similar laws; the difference is that in memetics, selection is done by humanity, while in genetics, selection is done by nature. Languages, norms and laws have all evolved much like mammals or birds or fish.

(Note: syntropy, or negentropy, is the opposite of entropy; syntropy and entropy are order and disorder, respectively.) Everything in the universe revolves around one single principle: on large scale, everything tends towards the highest level of syntropy - that is, order - even though, on small scale ("scale" both in space and time) it is the other way around because of the law of entropy - that is, disorder. Entropy and syntropy, disorder and order, are not in balance: in the end, syntropy always prevails over entropy. Otherwise, evolution in any form simply could not occur, and the universe as we know it could not exist. Entropy is destruction, syntropy is creation. But a process in which entropy and syntropy amplify one another is in itself a process of creation. Entropy is homogeneity; syntropy is heterogeneity. Because of this, any process that increases entropy in a small amount of space or time will increase syntropy in a larger amount of space and time. Consider the following example: when heavenly bodies collide, an increase of entropy occurs. If an asteroid would collide with the Earth, I’m sure no-one will deny this fact. Yet it is through these very collisions that the Earth was once formed. A planet arises when a planetoid cleans its orbit of planetisimals - “infinitesimal planets.” Chemically, this increases entropy; the coalescing bodies melt to lava, erasing their features from their surface. But astronomically and cosmologically, it increases syntropy; the coalescing bodies form a planet. The solar system becomes less homogenous because its mass is less evenly spread throughout it. The same can be said about the Big Bang: only when the singularity exploded could more complicated structures arise from its fundamental state. (The entropy of a black hole is very LOW: S = kA/4Ap where k is the Boltzmann constant, A is the surface area of the black hole, and AP is the Planck surface, that is, the Planck length squared. Using the formula of the Schwarzschild radius, r = 2Gm/c2, one can derive the surface area of the black hole: A = 4πr2 = 16G2m2/c4 Replacing this using the mass of the entire observable universe (assuming there was as much net mass in the singularity then) we get that the entire universe then had an entropy of a mere 8,53 · 10–9 J/K, about as much as there is in two trillion molecules at 30 Celsius. This could be even lower depending on how one defines the surface area of the black hole -- in this calculation we used the surface area of the ergosphere.) Both entropy and syntropy will cause things to become unified, and this is how these two things are themselves unified to one. Entropy creates syntropy, and that is how the universe itself arose from night nothingness. Entropy in itself is part of syntropy: for it as well completes the infinite interconnectivity of the universe.

Over the past millions of years, nature has made its greatest achievement of all time. It has given us the most marvelous ability there is in the universe: the ability to perceive beauty, and so to recreate it in our minds. From this asset spring the most beautiful things in life - love, wonder, esthesia, spirituality. We alone, sentient beings, are capable of experiencing such profound feelings. Our emotions don’t lose any of their meaningfulness just because we were given them by nothing but natural selection: the preservation of our genes and our gene pool is not just what we have our qualities for - it’s how we got them. Emotion can be seen as the final destination of evolution, and this only adds to the magic of its nature - it is what it has been aiming at since time immemorial. This is all the universe was born for, for it is the the ultimate culmination of its development: the ability to experience feelings is the crowning glory of all things. And eventually, this development falls to intelligence, for it is there to complete this creation by expanding itself to infinity. That we are capable of seeking beauty reflects the true nature of evolution: it does not just preserve life, but also enriches it. It does not create life as its slave, but as its child. It is not a machine chasing us with a giant meat grinder, mincing the flesh of all those who fall behind. For although it is associated with death, evolution itself is life: evolution is the exception to death, and so, in fact, its opposite, even though it lives in harmony with it. Evolution is the creation of that which shall survive, not the destruction of that which does not. Evolution can therefore be seen as that which counteracts the law of entropy, and so has brought about everything in the universe in spite of it.