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1 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52234 | ||
Note how vigorously this law works against the notion that life somehow arose from random events over time. The notion: Given unlimited time plus a trillion typewriting tamarind monkeys, Psalm 139 (KJV) will inevitably result. But since it takes more energy to assemble a thing than to disassemble it, time and chance can't monkeydance. For every simian keystroke there's a weightier anti-keystroke: the 2nd Law means the monkey system is un-typing faster (if even by grace notes) than it types. The life which improbably self-assembled, survived, self-replicated then bulged from the Primordial Pool had oceans more odds against it than for it, more anti-chance than chance, unless... God. | ||||||
2 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | Parable | 52245 | ||
I'm not sure what you mean by anti-chance, but I agree with you that the 2nd law seems contrary to the chance assembly of life-sustaining complexity. Contrary to popular belief, the 2nd law is a mathematical summary of practical experience rather than an exact conclusion derived from first principles. In this sense it is quite different from the 1st Law, which states that the energy of an isolated system is constant. Also, the second law assumes a closed system, so it does not hold for open systems, i.e. those in communication with external energy sources. The way scientists get around this problem for cosmology is they redefine their new system to include whatever energy source was outside of the original system. If taken to the infinite limit, this means the 2nd law holds for the universe as an unbounded but closed system. To me, this is a paradoxical situation. Materialisms suggests that life could form spontaneously if the decrease in the local entropy, represented by the formation of a complex organism, was countered by an increase in the entropy of the overall system, represented by increased disorder someplace else. Chaos theory models how this could happen, i.e. order can arise from disorder so that energy can be dissipated efficiently. An example is the complex structure of a lightening bolt that discharges lots of energy quickly. Yet, how this redistribution of entropy works for life-forms is not clear, but in principle, its supposed to be the explanation. That's all well and fine if you accept the idea the universe is closed. As someone who knows that God is with us, I do not believe this. God is the ultimate energy source. Furthermore, His Creation is the basis for our understanding of thermodynamics, not vice-versa. This is similar to the idea that many people err when they interpret Scripture in the light of their experiences, rather then interpreting their experinces in the light of scripture. Parable |
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3 | The Bible and Science, #3 | Ps 102:26 | flinkywood | 52298 | ||
Dear Morant61 and Parable, a recent Economist article reported on current attempts to accord self-sacrificial love with the theory of evolution, whose core tenet is that hazard begat order of increasing complexity and variation: nothingness begat bang begat heat begat dust begat rock begat love. Love came from a rock: evolved from molecules, through single-celled yodie-kadodies, through T-rex, through mamalia, through to H. Erectus and the Beatles. Since it evolved from nothing, love must fit into the theory of nothing somehow; it must have a function beneficial to survival, otherwise it would have been selected out. Self sacrificial love appears on the surface to work against survival, so what's it doing there? Some researchers are puzzled. For this I like 1 John 4:19, "We love, because He first loved us." Morant61, The physical laws God made to run His creation are often used to disprove His authorship of them. Since evolution theory is founded on chance events, I just like how perfectly those same physical laws which supposedly arose by chance (chaos theory's entropy credits? Holy Enron, Batman!) disprove the possibility of their having ever arisen by chance at all. Don't you just love it? The whole thing is too fantastic, really. |
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