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Subject: A Creationist Has A Problem with the Process of Thermodyanmics

Date: Mon Nov 13 11:54:28 2000
Posted by Phil
Grade level: nonaligned School: N/A
City: Highlands Ranch State/Province: CO Country: USA
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 974134468.Ev
Message:

Here's a question from my creationist friend, "The question ISN'T whether 
there is enough 'raw energy' from the sun to drive a mythical evolutionary 
process, but how does it perform it? You don't see a pile of lumber, 
bricks, and nails spontaneously collaborate and form a building. There 
surely is enough 'raw energy' from the sun to perform the process but 
without some intelligent source to instigate it, the lumber, bricks, and 
nails will just sit there and collect dust. This thermodynamic argument 
for evolution is fallicious for a few reasons. 
1.It only applies to 'open' systems. That's laughable because all other 
systems are also equally 'open.' 
2.It doesn't apply to 'living' systems." 
How would you answer this?


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