someone just stated this..
2007-01-17 17:50:48 · 11 answers · asked by Nick F 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-01-17 17:51:15 · update #1
False, physics says that as a whole the entropy increases. The earth is satisfying this, try again.
2007-01-17 17:56:44 · update #2
Physics states that THINGS BREAK DOWN...they do not grow and /or get better over time alone.
(so long ago! -- the third law of Thermal Dynamics???)
2007-01-17 17:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anti-evolutionists say that according to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of a closed system must increase. But they fail to understand that the earth is not a closed system. It receives energy from the sun. This energy is used to decrease the entropy in living things.
2007-01-18 02:01:53 · answer #2 · answered by Incoherent Fool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the branch of physics that deals with fluid dynamics and self-organised criticality shows that patterns can be created from chaos over time under existing physical laws. These equations can be used to describe the formation of galaxies, hurricanes, geological formations, economic patterns etc. That whole THINGS BREAK DOWN entropy argument doesn't hold muster I'm sorry.
2007-01-18 01:59:41 · answer #3 · answered by Graham S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Straw graspers erroneously point to the second law of thermodynamics and claim that it is impossible for information to be created over time due to the principle of ever-increasing entropy in a closed system.
Happily, life on earth doesn't currently need to concern itself with the second law of thermodynamics because the earth is not a closed system. We get massive energy inputs from the sun.
These fools don't realize that by their severly flawed logic, it should be impossible for them to do their dishes.
2007-01-18 01:59:22 · answer #4 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no "laws" of physics. There are a set of behaviours and rules at a given rate of speed, time and space. The moment you change "frameworks" the rules change or don't apply or don't give the expected results.
The only "constant" in the Universe is the speed of light in a vaccum, but even that might change at some future date. Everything else is realative to the situation.
2007-01-18 01:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I don't understand is how people can Google something about 10th grade science they don't understand and make a radical assumption that it completely discounts a solidly based scientific theory.
C'mon people, if any of thermodynamics "disproved" evolution, don'tcha think some chemists mighta thought of that by now? Honestly.
2007-01-18 02:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it sounds like another excuse, and no that to the other response, physics does not state things break down
2007-01-18 01:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
whynotaskdon has already given the knee-jerk response... showing again how fundamentalists never truly _learn_ the 'science' that they like to spout out; they just parrot each other...
2007-01-18 01:56:28 · answer #8 · answered by XYZ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't....probably just some christian apologist
a·pol·o·gist
–noun 1. a person who makes a defense in speech or writing of a belief, idea, etc.
2. Ecclesiastical.
a. a person skilled in apologetics.
b. one of the authors of the early Christian apologies in defense of the faith.
2007-01-18 01:55:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some creationists say it violates some of the laws of thermodynamics. It doesn't.
2007-01-18 01:55:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋