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The second law of thermodynamics says that everything tends toward disorder, making evolutionary development impossible.

The second law of thermodynamics says no such thing. It says that heat will not spontaneously flow from a colder body to a warmer one or, equivalently, that total entropy (a measure of useful energy) in a closed system will not decrease....

...D. and James J. Kay, 1994. Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 19(6-8): 25-48. http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/jjkay/pubs/Life_as/lifeas.pdf

Evolutionary theory, for a variety of nonscientific reasons, has obtained the status of sacred revelation. To express doubts by bringing up the counterevidence to the theory is to brand oneself an intellectual infidel.

...common to hear creationists speak with ignorance about the second law of thermodynamics , no transitional fossils , irreducible complexity , and other subjects, and AIG's list of bad arguments barely scratches the surface. The real infidels of evolution, such as Barbara McClintock and Stanley...

...e/area/faq/dont_use.asp Kimura, M. 1983. The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Margulis, Lynn. 1981. Symbiosis in Cell Evolution , San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co. Ohta, Tomoko. 1992. The nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. Annual Revie...

The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Probability Copyright © 1995-1997 by Frank Steiger This document may be reproduced without royalty for non-profit, non-commercial use. Creationists believe that the second law of thermodynamics does not permit order to arise from...

...yalty for non-profit, non-commercial use. Creationists believe that the second law of thermodynamics does not permit order to arise from disorder, and therefore the macro evolution of complex living things from single-celled ancestors could not have occurred. The creationist argument is based on their interpretation of the relationship between...

..., or state of randomness or disorder, of the system. This is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics. (p. 19) There is a universal tendency for all systems to go from order to disorder, as stated in the Second Law, and this tendency can only be arrested and reversed under very special circumstances. We have already seen, in Chapter I, that diso...

Thermodynamics, Evolution and Creationism Other Links: Outside links open in new windows. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics! Chemist Frank L. Lambert gives an accessible introduction to the second law of thermodynamics. It includes a section on evol...

...tionism Other Links: Outside links open in new windows. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics! Chemist Frank L. Lambert gives an accessible introduction to the second law of thermodynamics. It includes a section on evolution and the second law . The same author also has written a much longer treatment of the second law and Entropy is Sim...

...amics! Chemist Frank L. Lambert gives an accessible introduction to the second law of thermodynamics. It includes a section on evolution and the second law . The same author also has written a much longer treatment of the second law and Entropy is Simple... which deals with some road blocks to understanding the second law. The Second Law of The...

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...1981, Creationist Misunderstanding, Misrepresentation and Misuse of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Creation/Evolution, v. 2, p. 8-16. Gish, D. T., 1978, Thermodymanics and the origin of life (Part II): ICR Impact Series, v. 58, p. i-iv. Oster, G. F., Silver, I. L., and Tobais, C. A., 1974, Irreversible Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life:...

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