Oculus Sinistra said:
Wow. That's ridiculous. You can't use laws of thermodynamics to refute "darwinism".
Where was that?
I am taking a History of the Life Sciences course and the following is an excerpt from an article which supports creationism. The authors contest that entropy would have prevented the ordered events which led to the development of the first cell.
I. The Universe and the Solar System Were Suddenly Created.
The First Law of Thermodynamics states that the total quantity
of matter and energy in the universe is constant. The Second Law of
Thermodynamics states that matter and energy always tend to change
from complex and ordered states to disordered states. Therefore the
universe could not have created itself, but could not have existed forever,
or it would have run down long ago. Thus the universe, including
matter and energy, apparently must have been created.
The "big-bang" theory of the origin of the universe contradicts
much physical evidence and seemingly can only be accepted by faith..
This was also the case with the past cosmogonic theories of evolutionists
that have been discarded, such as Hoyle's steady-state theory.
The universe has "obvious manifestations of an ordered, structured
plan or design." Similarly, the "electron is materially inconceivable
and yet it is so perfectly known through its effects," yet a "strange
rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as
real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer." "The inconceivability
of some ultimate issue (which will always lie outside scientific
resolution) should not be allowed to rule out any theory that explains
the interrelationship of observed data and is useful for prediction," in
the words of Dr. Wemher Yon Braun, the renowned late physicist in
the NASA space program.
II. Life Was Suddenly Created.
Life appears abruptly and in complex forms in the fossil record,'
and gaps appear systematically in the fossil record between various
living kinds.These facts indicate that basic kinds of plants and animals
were created.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that things tend to go
from order to disorder (entropy tends to increase) unless added energy
is directed by a conversion mechanism (such as photosynthesis),
whether a system is open or closed. Thus simple molecules and complex
protein, DNA, and RNA molecules seemingly could not have evolved
spontaneously and naturalistically into a living cell;' such cells apparently
were created.
The laboratory experiments related to theories on the origin of life
have not even remotely approached the synthesis of life from nonlife,
and the extremely limited results have depended on laboratory conditions
that are artifically imposed and extremely improbable. The extreme
improbability of these conditions and the relatively insignificant
results apparently show that life did not emerge by the process that
evolutionists postulate:
"One example of the scientific evidence for creation is the sudden
appearance of complex fossilized life in the fossil record, and the
systematic gaps between fossilized kinds in that record. The most
rational inference from this evidence seemingly is that life was
created and did not evolve."
