A common creationist argument is that order can not come from disorder, in fact this idea goes beyond creationist, many people assume this. But it is utterly false.
If you take a disorderly system (I mean completely disorderly, random) the different possible outcomes will have different stabilities (some outcomes will be more stable than others), on average the more stable outcomes will out last the less stable outcomes. So even in a random system there will be order, in fact that order would come out of the randomness of the system.

This isn't just hypothetical, we've seen it. Things on the quondam scale are disorderly, two particles collide, there are 5 possible outcomes, which one happens is (as far as we can tell) is random. Yet when you move to a larger scale, things go from a random disorderly system to an orderly deterministic system. In evolution random mutations cause the variation between generations however natural selection acts on these random mutations. Those mutations that increase a creatures chances of survival and reproduction build up in the population while mutations that decrease a creatures chances of survival and reproduction are weeded out.

Order from disorder is not only possible it is the norm.

Note: This too is an old unpublished post.
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