40 cited in Duane Gish, Creation Scientists Answer their Critics Institute for Creation Research, 1993.The second law of thermodynamics is sometimes (too succinctly) stated as “disorder increases over time”. Raw energy would result in wrong combinations and even destruction of the building blocks.ġ John Ross, Chemical and Engineering News, July 7, 1980, p. In the lab, chemists must use sophisticated machinery to make the building blocks combine in the right way. To make proteins, a cell uses the information coded in the DNA and a very complex decoding machine. But if the bull were harnessed to a generator, and the electricity directed a pottery-producing machine, then its energy could be used to make things. A bull in a china shop is also raw energy. No, a car will run only if the energy in petrol is harnessed via the pistons, crankshaft, etc. It’s like trying to run a car by pouring petrol on it and setting it alight. Similarly, undirected energy flow through an alleged primordial soup will break down the complex molecules of life faster than they are formed. (Mutations are copying errors in the genes that nearly always lose information).
If you stood in the sun too long, you would get skin cancer, because the sun’s undirected energy will cause mutations. Just standing out in the sun won’t make you more complex-the human body lacks the mechanisms to harness raw solar energy. Undirected energy just speeds up destruction. Raw energy cannot generate the specified complex information in living things. The open systems argument does not help evolution.
Living things have such energy-converting machinery to make the complex structures of life.
The other case is programmed machinery, that directs energy into maintaining and increasing complexity, at the expense of increased disorder elsewhere. There are special cases where local order can increase at the expense of greater disorder elsewhere. Open systems still have a tendency to disorder. It is important to make sure that this error does not perpetuate itself.1 … There is somehow associated with the field of far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics the notion that the second law of thermodynamics fails for such systems. Ordinarily the second law is stated for isolated systems, but the second law applies equally well to open systems. … there are no known violations of the second law of thermodynamics. Dr John Ross of Harvard University states: Certainly, many evolutionists claim that the 2nd Law doesn’t apply to open systems. In this case, the 2nd Law is stated such that the total entropy of the system and surroundings never decreases.Īn open system exchanges both matter and energy with its surroundings. The universe is an isolated system, so is running down- see If God created the universe, then who Created God? for what this implies.Ī closed system exchanges energy but not matter with its surroundings. The total entropy of an isolated system never decreases. That the entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum (in simple terms, entropy is a measure of disorder)Īn isolated system exchanges neither matter nor energy with its surroundings. The Second Law can be stated in many different ways, e.g.: ‘This does seem to be a valid point-do creationists still use this argument? Am I missing something here?’ ‘Someone recently asked me about the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, stating that they thought it was irrelevant to creation/evolution because the earth is not an isolated system since the sun is constantly pumping in more energy. Overcome the second law of thermodynamics. Many evolutionists assume that adding energy (open system) will