http://afcmin.org/ateam/627/ets-2007-is-the-spontaneous-market-order-an-example-of-the-design-without-a-designer-by-jay-w-richards Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 http://afcmin.org/ateam/627/ets-2007-is-the-spontaneous-market-order-an-example-of-the-design-without-a-designer-by-jay-w-richards/comment-page-1#comment-2914 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:02:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=627#comment-2914 It was mostly a summary because his response to the argument didn't require much development. Apparently some atheists think the argument does a great job of proving the ID arguments wrong, so Dr. Richards simply pointed out that their “spontaneous market order” argument doesn't say anything about whether or not God could have designed it.
I'm not familiar with how Hayek defined chaos, but you're on to another problem with the jump between a biological-evolution argument and an economic-spontaneous one. In biology, supposedly, nature is making the selections and the individual organisms are not making the evolutionary decisions. Economics does depend on intelligent individuals making decisions to better their situation.

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I'd like to know how Hayek defined chaos. I don't see the spontaneous market as “order from chaos.” Billions of individuals intelligently planning their decisions does not sound like chaos to me.

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