Do you think that THOSE guys will be accused of not understanding the 2nd Law?
Like the rest of us have?
Seems like the evos are the ones without the understanding of the 2nd Law themselves.
Well, perhaps such folks, describing themselves as "Darwinian biologists," simply don't recognize that the Second Law applies to them (and to their field of interest), too.
Thank you so much for writing, dear sister in Christ!
But if it isn't, I have a story to tell.
For the past ten years or so, I have been doing a little editorial work from time to time for a Hungarian astrophysicist with a passion for theoretical biology. His specialty as an astrophysicist is the Sun. Over time, he has recognized that the Sun shows evidence of certain critical aspects of biological behavior. I won't get into the details of his work here.
Suffice it to say, my physicist friend is keenly interested in "biological behavior." And his interest has been decidedly stoked by the work of the theoretical biologist Ervin Bauer (b. 1890 – d. ????), a fellow Hungarian one generation removed.
One of Bauer's greatest insights (it seems to me): "A living being, and only a living being, constantly works to maintain the greatest distance possible from physical entropy, which otherwise inexorably would set in by the natural operation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics."
Must leave Bauer's theory there for now. (Insufficient space and time.) I would like to talk about what happened to Bauer.
Ervin Bauer, in his professional career, started out with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. But soon enough, he came to the attention of Soviet "science"; and they dragooned him into their own academy. Since Bauer's country was by then a wholly captured (and subjected) member of the Soviet Bloc, he had no right to refuse such a "great privilege."
He worked prolifically and contently for Soviet science for many, many years. Until the day he committed the crime of "political incorrectness," which drew the attention of Stalin himself.
I have no precise idea what Bauer's "sin" against Stalin might have been. Maybe it was simply that Soviet science, having been totally politicized in order to realize the fantasies of its totalitarian ruler, had been turned into a tool of Stalin's shifting desires and imaginings. What Bauer had been doing, in his theoretical researches, under those circumstances, was considered "reactionary," and thus "punishable."
Certainly Stalin's first tool of domination was the purge — the simple erasure of all opinion that did not accord with his own.
If actual men had to die for this, so be it. No sweat. Stalin was "worth it" — in his own mind, at least, just like in a L'Oreal cosmetics commercial.
Let me end here: I could not use the "death date" proposed by Wikipedia — 1938. (So I indicated it by "XXXX" in the above.)
New facts have come to light. Their bearing:
Ervin Bauer, together with his wife — the accomplished mathematician Stefánia Szilárd (the sister of the physicist Leó Szilárd) — were shot under Stalin's orders in 1947, in the course of a "routine" purge that involved other scientists, as well.
Makes you sick. Or at least, it does me.
Whatta devastating waste of human genius, of human life.
But my friend the astrophysicist carries on Bauer's work, Bauer's tradition.
My friends, do not despair! God's Truth will ever be OUTED! Nothing can prevail against it.
Thank you again, dear sister in Christ, for writing! All thanks and praise be unto our Lord!