[bobdsmith]

"order can increase in an open system, not because the laws of probability are suspended when the door is open, but simply because order may walk in through the door.... If we found evidence that DNA, auto parts, computer chips, and books entered through the Earth's atmosphere at some time in the past, then perhaps the appearance of humans, cars, computers, and encyclopedias on a previously barren planet could be explained without postulating a violation of the second law here (it would have been violated somewhere else!)

This is pure tripe. How can anyone defend this nonsense? It's not even internally consistant. Seeing as auto-parts and computer chips DID arise on Earth and certainly didn't "come through the atmosphere" (?!!), then is he saying their origin is a violation of the second law?

Finally, I am well aware that logic and evidence are powerless against the popular perception, nurtured by prestigious journals such as National Geographic and Nature

No seriously he actually wrote this. National Geographic is a prestigious journal. Check the article if you don't believe me. Honest, im not kidding. I haven't made this up - it's in the article - it's really in there.

[Elsie]

National Geographic is a prestigious journal...

National Geographic is a prestigious journal that is drifting farther and farther left. How soon we forget the China dino-bird fiasco.

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Scientific American is a prestigious journal (could be said 15 years ago)

Scientific American WAS a prestigious journal (Today)