This is the definition of the second law straight out of my Thermodynamics textbook. "In any spontaneous process (a spontaneous process is a chemical reaction that occurs naturally without external influence), the total (total means average) entropy of a system and it's surroundings always increases." Evolution is not a spontaneous process because the Earth constantly recieves energy from the sun, which is an external influence. If you pay close attention to detail, you will realize it says total entropy of a system. It does not say that the entropy of each individual piece of matter increases. The book specifically states that "non-spontaneous reactions (which is what evolution is) always result in a decrease in entropy (meaning that an increase in the order of a system can and does happen in nature)." In other words, nothing about evolution breaks the second law.
2007-09-09 11:29:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love when I get no good answers after I use science.
2007-09-09 11:59:50 · update #1
Solid science!
not that it won't be ignored by creation fanatics
2007-09-09 11:38:33 · answer #1 · answered by capekicks 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My physics book states the Second Law as this: "The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium."
The laws of thermodynamics deal with changes in temperature, pressure, and volume. Thus the "thermo" part of thermodynamics. I've seen many attempt to use the Second Law in order to discredit evolution; not many of those doing so actually understand thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. So you are absolutely correct: evolution does NOT break the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
2007-09-09 12:53:18 · answer #2 · answered by OPad 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The so-stated as professional evolutionists listed here are consistently relating the earth as no longer being a closed gadget. That subject has to do with the UNIVERSE no longer with planet earth by myself. From own adventure, you likely understand that each and every person issues tend in the direction of affliction. As any living house proprietor has stated, while left to themselves, issues tend to break down or crumble. Scientists consult with this tendency as “the 2nd regulation of thermodynamics.” we are able to verify this regulation at artwork each and on a daily basis. If left by myself, a clean vehicle or bicycle will become scrap. Abandon a construction and it will become a smash. What on the topic of the universe? The regulation applies there too. so as which you would be able to think of that the order during the universe could provide thank you to end affliction. although, this does not seem occurring to the universe, as Professor of arithmetic Roger Penrose chanced on while he studied the state of disorderliness (or, entropy) of the observable universe. A logical thank you to interpret such findings is to end that the universe started out in an ordered state and continues to be relatively prepared. Astrophysicist Alan Lightman stated that scientists “locate it mysterious that the universe become created in one in all those relatively ordered circumstance.” He further that “any powerful theory of cosmology could finally clarify this entropy problem”—why the universe has no longer become chaotic. Sir Fred Hoyle explains interior the character of the Universe: “to keep away from the subject of advent it may well be mandatory for each and all the fabric of the Universe to be infinitely previous, and this it won't be able to be. . . . Hydrogen is being gradually switched over into helium and the different factors . . . How comes it then that the Universe is composed basically approximately fullyyt of hydrogen? If rely have been infinitely previous this may well be extremely impossible. So we see that the Universe being what it fairly is, the advent subject basically won't be able to be dodged.”
2016-10-19 23:33:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never understood what evolution has to do with thermodynamics in the first place
2007-09-09 11:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by murnip 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not.
If entropy excluded evolution, it would preclude life.
2007-09-09 11:38:48 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone used that against evolution? LOLOL wow they just never cease to amaze me.
2007-09-09 12:24:46 · answer #6 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just broke some thermodynamics in my pants.
2007-09-09 11:34:26 · answer #7 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is there a point that you are trying to make somewhere in there?
2007-09-09 11:35:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. If it did, rock candy would break it as well.
2007-09-09 11:35:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evolution............again.
Try and train a chimp to talk.
If there was evolution the power of speech will come to him.
2007-09-09 12:27:48 · answer #10 · answered by repent 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋