The 2nd law is about organized complexity, not entropy
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Claim
The second law of thermodynamics allows higher order (lower entropy) to appear locally, but it still disallows organized complexity. For example, it allows highly ordered arrangements such as "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. . ." to originate, but not complex ordered arrangements such as the words on this page.
Source
- Yahya, Harun, 1999. The Evolution Deceit. [1]
Responses
- There is no rationale or available reference in the article to support the claim. The term organized complexity is a subjective description. Furthermore, the 2nd law of TD does not dictate that the order of energy on earth must increase, either, and thus 2nd law of TD is not being "misused as an argument in favor of evolution". The evolutionist claim is simply that the 2nd law of TD does not dictate increased entropy to earth as it is not a closed system. To use his own analogy. If you have both
- A randomizer to create random constellations of letters and random constellations of validated sounds and words.
- A identification to accept "valid" sounds, words and sentences.
- Then you only need time until the identification process has accepted enough words for sentences to be made. However, the important thing is that the identification process picks out basic combinations first and that approved patterns are being reused in the randomizer.
- Given as how Evolution is not a closed system by any sane or sound definition, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics can not be applied to it.
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