Posted on 01/26/2002 1:14:46 PM PST by Paul Ross
Entropy measures the amount of waste heat that can not be turned into work. A power plant uses tons of coal every day to "replace" this waste heat that is lost. In the same way, the earth uses the sun to replace the energy that is lost due to entropy. Life doesn't contradict this, since everything alive gets energy from the sun, however indirectly.
Dr. Henry Morris:
The Second Law proves, as certainly as science can prove anything whatever, that the universe had a beginning. Similarly, the First Law shows that the universe could not have begun itself. The total quantity of energy in the universe is a constant, but the quantity of available energy is decreasing. Therefore, as we go backward in time, the available energy would have been progressively greater until, finally, we would reach the beginning point, where available energy equaled total energy. Time could go back no further than this. At this point both energy and time must have come into existence. Since energy could not create itself, the most scientific and logical conclusion to which we could possibly come is that: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."
The evolutionist will not accept this conclusion, however. He hypothesizes that either: (1) some natural law canceling out the Second Law prevailed far back in time, or (2) some. natural law canceling out the Second Law prevails far out in space.
When he makes such assumptions, however, he is denying his own theory, which says that all things can be explained in terms of presently observable laws and processes. He is really resorting to creationism, but refuses to acknowledge a Creator.
Isaac Asimov: The universe and the earth are becoming more disorderly and the sun isn't stopping this or reversing established scientific law.
Hence the evolution of "closing time" at the neighborhood tavern ...
Darwin dealt in species, not races. Nice try, though.
Evolution doesn't apply to the Big Bang.
Proofs of Macroevolution [Missing]
You might try doing some research before bringing up this old canard.
Once again, it pays to do some research. Otherwise you fall prey to dragons ...
It is not an advantage to a humans to kill off the elderly. They help their family and/or tribe by relating experience and knowledge they have gained during their life. Competition among humans is between tribes rather than between individual people. Darwin did not argue for human extermination programs. This is a common misunderstanding of the phrase "survival of the fittest".
Anti-Jewish pogroms have a long history in Europe, and the holocaust was the industrialization of the medieval pogrom.
While not platypuses, dolphins or whales, the following links show that speciation (the creation of new species through random mutation and selection) has been observed. The general idea is, what holds true for a sampling of species probably holds true for all species.
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
David N. Menton, Ph.D.:
In an effort to promote the evolution of "higher forms" of humans, Darwin's cousin, Sir Francis Galton, founded the Eugenics Movement. Eugenics is the "science" which seeks to improve the biological makeup of the human species by selective breeding. Galton advocated the regulation of marriage and family size according to the genetic quality of the parents. He believed that if controlled breeding was applied to humans, as it was to farm animals, a perfect human breed could be developed. This concept of the "master race" was put into practice by Adolph Hitler in Germany in an effort to create a "pure Aryan race," while exterminating "inferior" Jews.
No discussion of the devastating impact of Social Darwinism on society would be complete without considering its strong influence on the development of Marxism and communism. Frederich Engels and Karl Marx (co-founders of Marxist communism) were exceedingly enthusiastic over Darwin's book On the Origin of Species. Karl Marx wrote a letter to Engels in December of 1860 declaring that On the Origin of Species was "the book which contains the basis in natural history for our views." In another letter to Engels in January of 1861, Marx declared:
"Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis of struggle in history...not only is a death blow dealt here for the first time to 'Teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is emphatically explained." (As quoted by Conway Zirkle in: Evolution, Marxian Biology, and the Social Scene, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959, p. 86).
The reality is that there are massive gaps in even the theories of how species allegedly involved.
There is NO evidence and no fossil record. Evolution contradicts therodynamics and is based on the absurd idea that mutations are massively beneficial. It's a crock of BS that's even more absurd than global warming.
If killing off the sick and elderly lent some kind of advantage to a tribe, then the most successful nation in history would have been the Aztecs.
Darwin's cousin was racist just like he was.
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