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Evolution and the Law
By sciencebase, Section Ask SciScoop Posted on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 02:51:49 AM PST
Does evolution break the second law of thermodynamics? The law states that entropy, a measure of randomness, cannot decrease in a closed system.

So, does evolution break this physical law by creating complexity (order) from apparent chaos here on earth? The answer is an emphatic, "No! Why? Because the earth is not a closed system. It receives a vast energy input from the sun and if you look at the overall entropy balance, there is a huge increase in disorder as the sun burns its fuel, so that total entropy of almost closed system that is the solar system increases greatly as time goes by. More on this here... and thanks to New Scientist magazine for inspiring this idea with its evolution myths debunked page.

Evolution and the Law | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 hidden)

Just shake my head every time (none / 0) (#1)
by Teknowizard on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 09:25:37 AM PST

I have actually come to dread it when someone comes into one of the science forums and starts preaching creationism or intelligent design. Had one about a month ago trying to argue that the universe wasn't expanding, trying to inject Genesis (chapter in the bible) as scientific evidence and then when I tried to debate the issue with him, pointing out that you cannot inject a religious document as scientific evidence because they are two entirely different philosophies, one based on evidence and the other based on faith, he tried to tell me they weren't philosophies. LOL

Its funny that they cannot conceive that the universe is in essence, a form of chaotic order, that from all the destruction that which survived formed patterns of order. To give a simpler example, look at our modern societies and compare them to those of the past... through a great deal of chaos societies have learned and grown, slowly into what we have today. Just as the chaos of today will make changes in what society will become in the future.

Exactly... by sciencebase, 04/22/2008 01:03:22 AM PST (none / 0)

LOL by Teknowizard, 06/09/2008 10:23:52 AM PST (none / 0)

A Short Spell by sciencebase, 06/13/2008 04:55:30 AM PST (none / 0)

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