George Gamow told in his book My World Line (Viking, New York, reprinted 1970) how he was having a conversation with Albert Einstein while walking through Princeton in the 1940s. Gamow casually mentioned that one of his colleagues had pointed out to him that according to Einstein's equations a star could be created out of nothing at all, because its negative gravitational energy precisely cancels out its positive mass energy. "Einstein stopped in his tracks," says Gamow, "and, since we were crossing a street, several cars had to stop to avoid running us down".
Think this through. We have the greatest minds of our time trying to disprove the First Law of Thermodynamics -- one of the pillars of our knowledge of the physical world. Now this is all fine and fair since the First Law is a paradox and it's natural and good for Man to try to figure why this is.
But if are encouraging people to questiong the basic laws of physics, why do some get so upset when Evolution -- which has its share of paradoxes -- is questioned?