Evolution's Thermodynamic Failure

The American Spectator ^ | December 28, 2005 | Granville Sewell

[mad_as_he$$]

Great points! When I was in college - some time ago. I had a discussion with my Physics Prof about wormholes. He was a Sci-fi buff so he was open to such discussions. We got around to quantum tunneling. He predicted that by 2000 it would be proven on a subatomic level. Back then that was almost wack job stuff to the main line guys. Well here we are with repeatable lab results that it does happen. <p. Wish I could see where this goes 300 years from now.

[Elsie]

Or imagine a universe in which only hydrogen, or perhaps helium also, exists.

We'd all sound like Donald Duck??

[Elsie]

I just want to know where the glump of cosmic goo that exploded in the Big Bang came from to begin with!

 

 

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E=Mc²

 

so, likewise,

 

M=E/c²

 

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NOW the question becomes:      "From where did the ENERGY come?"

 

[Stultis]

If you want to treat a tiger reasonably, you must go back to the garden of Eden.

I think Siegfried's buddy Roy will tell you that the garden of Eden treatment doesn't work so well with Tigers. He'll be treating them like highly evolved predators from now on.

[Elsie]

Ya.....

[xmission]

Whether or not scientists are Christians (as am I)

I've just got to know. Do you believe Jesus rose from the dead? If so how can you believe this scientifically, and if not why are you christian? (I'm not trying to be a smart a$$, I'm really curious).

[js1138]

Y2k was an expensive problem for corporations. I worked for a company that manages most of the country's mortgages. They had a team of about 50 guys working on it in 1994.

Hence the big nothing when the date rolled.

[Stultis]

Never let thermodynamics get in the way of spontaneous generation.

I think it's easy to argue that spontaneous generation was already on it's way out by the time the Second Law was explicitly formulated.

[Elsie]

"Pardon me Roy,
Was that the cat that chewed your new shoes?"


(With apologies to the Chatanooga Choo-choo)

http://www.mamarocks.com/Chattanooga_Choo_Choo_MM_GM.mid

[Elsie]

With a number like this; how can you ask a question like this??? ;^)

[UCANSEE2]

... the idea that the four fundamental forces of physics alone could rearrange the fundamental particles of nature

More than implied, he stated. It was just easy to miss the word 'alone'.

[Blzbba]

Hope your lunch was enjoyable.

[Elsie]

Yup - now I've goofed off for 7 hours!

[Blzbba]

You & me both, kiddo. I thank you for helping me pass the time here today!

[xmission]

I give. What are you talking about?

[Elsie]

I have GOT to SOMETHING done around the house before the wife gets home!

See you guys later....

[xmission]

Nevermind (g). I get it!

[atlaw]

"If you want to treat a tiger reasonably, you must go back to the garden of Eden. For the obstinate reminder continues to recur: only the supernaturalist has taken a sane view of Nature."

Talking snakes, dirt-eating snakes, unicorns, mysterious trees of "Life" and "The Knowledge of Good and Evil," giants, dragons, leviathans, satyrs, ruminant rabbits, bird-bats, four-legged insects, melting snails, storehouses for snow and hail, and let's not forget:

". . . for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent" [Isaiah 14:29] and

". . . the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted." [Genesis 30:39]

The supernaturalist may be a source for spiritual wisdom, but I wouldn't take too far the notion that he wields a particularly "sane" view of nature.

[webstersII]

AFAIK continental drift can be measured over a period of years. Are you saying it cannot?

As for the existence of electrons, neutrons, protons, neutrinos, etc., we can formulate experiements to test theories about the existence of all of those. The experiments can be repeated, falsified, etc. Are you saying this is not the case?

[tortoise]

The 6 numbers Dr. Rees refers to define the very structure of the universe. The slightest variation of them would prevent atoms from forming from plasma; or they would prevent any atoms of any other type than hydrogen from forming; etc etc.

As I said, you've limited yourself to your imagination. The rest went right over your head. My assertion was not idle speculation, it is a cornerstone theorem in mathematics.

Or imagine a universe where no stars exist. Only dust, barely above the absolute freezing point.

Where did the dust come from if there are no stars? Incidentally, all you've asserted here is conditions that alter computation rates and probability distributions, but does not eliminate them. You said "impossible", not "improbable". Try again.