Your wish is my command:
Fact is: You don't know squat about thermodynamics. All biological systems are endothermic. Ipso facto all living things are at the bottom end of an enthalpy gradient. This is consistent with the fact that most people believe the sun exists (the high end of the enthalpy gradient).I get tired of repeating it, and nobody ever refutes it, but thermodynamics allows for local decreases in entropy if the total entropy of the system increases. Biological organisms are examples of decreases in entropy. Massive quantities of enthalpy are expended to reverse entropy (as allowed in thermodynamics) and enormous quantities of entropy are created in the enthalpy transfer. So what is so hard to understand?
And a little more food for thought: If thermodynamics precludes the possibility of evolution, then it also precludes the existence of things such as diamonds, which are also local reversals of entropy by the massive expenditure of enthalpy. Do you believe diamonds exist?
81 posted on 1/1/02 4:15 PM Pacific by tortoise
That was a concise, well-explained quote from one of my fellow "ameoba worshipers," to which you have yet to respond, yet you somehow find the time to throw around remarks like this:
Got it? Or is reading too hard for you? Or is comprehension something beyond you? Fact is: Thermodynamics is at odds with evolution. Don't like it? Tough.79 posted on 1/1/02 3:07 PM Pacific by Darksheare
It is fairly clear who on this thread has been arguing facts and who has been throwing around insults in place of facts and logical argumentation. It is also fairly obvious which of us have actually studied Thermodynamics and who hasn't.
The operative term here is that you've been "exposed."