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Old 01-05-2006, 17:22 PM   #8 (permalink)
Anon
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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
Well said, Dale.

I'm going to hammer another nail into the coffin of this stupid article.

A misconception based on thermodynamics is the claim that evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics. The second law holds that a closed system will become less ordered, or will tend to a state of thermal equilibrium. The misconception is that this tendency would rule out evolution, which is taken to mean an increase in order. However, the system in which evolution operates – life on Earth – is not a closed system in the thermodynamic sense, since it receives an energy input from the sun. If evolution were impossible under thermodynamics, then so would be the growth of plants; however, it is not.
The universe is a closed system, so by your logic it should be impossible for evolution to take hold anywhere in the universe because it would violate the principle of entropy.

I think this article is highly flawed, but it was somewhat interesting, so i posted it just the same.
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