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To: jennyp
Google "Kelvin's Second Law of Thermodynamics": 49 hits.

That's almost legit. Kelvin did restate the Second Law in a useful way.

293 posted on 03/23/2006 2:32:44 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor

You'd think his name would come up more often on these threads.

Kelvin came closer than anyone to finding a LEGITIMATE scientific attack on Darwin's theory. I remember reading that they were contemporaries and that Kelvin's measurements of the Earth's core were showing that the center of the Earth's crust was too hot and that Earth was FAR too young for Darwin's theory to be valid. Kelvin was practicing GOOD science and making a credible case against evolution that was not necessarily influenced by his religious views (though he was a very religious man). In the end, Kelvin's measurements were proven wrong due to the fact that the Earth is continually being heated by radioactive materials, something he could have known nothing about at the time.

An actual scientific argument. I dream of such a thing sometimes....


298 posted on 03/23/2006 2:51:55 PM PST by gomaaa (We love Green Functions!!!!)
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