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To: nasamn777
Certainly, one can examine thermodynamics in the limited context that you describe, but it also has application related to the issue of the mechanism and the related processes.

No, it most certainly does not have relevance to mechanism. One of the first things we teach freshman students about thermo. is that it tells you the end result and the direction of a process; it says nothing about the rate or the route.

The various statements of the Second Law all have an implicit understanding of the mechanism.

The second law is one statement (or two if you include the limiting case that the entropy change in a reversible process is zero). I have no idea where you get 'the various statements of the Second Law', other than your own imagination.

Thermodynamics does pose problems for evolution, though evolutionary advocates fight it tooth and nail.

Utter tripe.

342 posted on 08/17/2004 11:17:49 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (www.swiftvets.com)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Thermodynamics does pose problems for evolution, though evolutionary advocates fight it tooth and nail.

RWP: Utter tripe.

Perhaps you should have taken some more time to read through the current debate at ARN I linked you to.

346 posted on 08/17/2004 11:31:24 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
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