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Evolution and economics

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I read a piece in Scientific American by Michael Shermer.

I won't quote the whole thing, but here's a link. Evolution and economics are both examples of a larger mysterious phenomenon
Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions. Immune systems, ecosystems, language, the law and the Internet are all examples of complex adaptive systems.

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As with living organisms and ecosystems, the economy looks designed—so just as humans naturally deduce the existence of a top-down intelligent designer, humans also (understandably) infer that a top-down government designer is needed in nearly every aspect of the economy. But just as living organisms are shaped from the bottom up by natural selection, the economy is molded from the bottom up by the invisible hand.
Question: Is the argument that the apparent order and design of life necessitates an intelligent creator any more valid than the argument that the apparent order and design of the human economic system must have been deliberately created by God?

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So now feedback mechanisms are also from God and proof of God?
Maybe that is how God got so smart. HeShe started at the bottom and worked his way to the top. No wonder God is so jealous as He/She is someone else will take his/Her job.

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