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To: Right Wing Professor
I said:

What happens to the light that bounces off the surface? Ultimately it will contact a surface and be absorbed!

And you said:

...just as the light energy from the sun is eventually radiated to space and attains a very low temperature. So the laser decreases the entropy of the condensate, just as the sun decreases the entropy of living systems.

You need a viable thermodynamic mechanism. In the case just stated, the mechanism is the laser and the accompanied container for the gas. Without reading the paper, I would say that one would have to perform a Fourier analysis and setup the system to cause the energy waves to cancel out. Constrained boundary conditions allow the decrease in entropy. Intelligence has to be used to setup the system.

The supposed Darwinian mechanism, however lacks the constraints as compared to the laser setup. A multiple of specific mutations are required, because life is functionally coupled. A change in one system necessitates a change in the adjacent systems and parts. Given the low probability of the mutations that lead to advancement, there is not enough time available that explains the plethora of advanced biological systems.
1,132 posted on 02/01/2005 7:46:06 AM PST by nasamn777 (The emperor wears no clothes -- I am sorry to tell you!)
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To: nasamn777
Given the low probability of the mutations that lead to advancement, there is not enough time available that explains the plethora of advanced biological systems.

Low probability does not equate to impossibility. Especially, considering the infinite universe, it is very probable.

1,135 posted on 02/01/2005 7:52:10 AM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: nasamn777

See my last post. The flux of energy from the sun transports water from the tropics to the poles, where it condenses as ice, with a large decrease in entropy. No intelligence needed.


1,136 posted on 02/01/2005 7:53:20 AM PST by Right Wing Professor (Evolve or die!)
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