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The law of enthropy is readily observable. Everything tends to deteriorate to the most simple form. Macro evolution starts with a primeaval soup, and develops into more complex organisms. When we are born, we begin to die. Strength becomes weakness. Weakness becomes death. I am just wondering how evolution gets around this fact. Albert Einstein stated that he believed this was the one law that could never be gotten around.


101 posted on 11/07/2004 7:20:42 PM PST by Murp
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To: Murp
The law of enthropy is readily observable. Everything tends to deteriorate to the most simple form.

This is not the law of thermodynamics. In fact, this is in direct contradiction to observed life cycles of individual organisms that start from a merging of two simple cells and grow to a complex organism structure.

The problem here is not with evolution. The problem here is with your fundamental understanding (or lack thereof) of scientific principles.

Macro evolution starts with a primeaval soup,

No, it doesn't. Now you demonstrate your fundamental ignorance of evolution.

When we are born, we begin to die. Strength becomes weakness.

This is just incoherent babble that doesn't make any point whatsoever.

. I am just wondering how evolution gets around this fact.

Simple. Unlike what you just stated, evolution is not nonsense. Albert Einstein stated that he believed this was the one law that could never be gotten around.

Please, present his exact statement on the matter.
111 posted on 11/07/2004 7:57:21 PM PST by Dimensio (Join the Monthly Internet Flash Mob: http://www.aa419.org)
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The second law applies only to closed systems - the earth is not a closed system. In order to decrease entropy, you apply energy, which we get from the big hot thing you see in the daytime sky. ;)


119 posted on 11/07/2004 8:12:42 PM PST by general_re (Drive offensively - the life you save may be your own.)
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The law of enthropy is readily observable.

No such word. Did you mean "entropy" or "enthalpy" (both apply to thermodyamics).

Everything tends to deteriorate to the most simple form.

No it doesn't, but thanks for grossly misstating the actual laws of thermodyamics.

And your inclusion of the qualifier "tends to" acknowledges that under the right conditions some things *can* increase in complexity, so what was that you were saying about "laws" again?

Macro evolution starts with a primeaval soup, and develops into more complex organisms.

A vast oversimplification, but close enough.

When we are born, we begin to die. Strength becomes weakness. Weakness becomes death.

I'll bet you're a *lot* of fun at parties...

I am just wondering how evolution gets around this fact.

Reproduction -- spin off fresh copies before the old one gives out. Every generation is a new start.

But even leaving evolution itself aside, your misstated "law" is "violated" by bacteria, which are effectively immortal do not "run down" as you incorrectly claim is some sort of "law of nature". So your "law" is obviously faulty.

Albert Einstein stated that he believed this was the one law that could never be gotten around.

He may be right when it comes to the laws of thermodynamics, but no point you've raised in your post qualifies.

208 posted on 11/08/2004 11:40:40 PM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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