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To: VadeRetro
It doesn't explicitly prohibit anything about order and doesn't talk about "natural" versus "unnatural."

Actually, an excellent point, I should have used "spontaneous"(whatever that means).

20 posted on 05/08/2002 6:55:33 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
Actually, an excellent point, I should have used "spontaneous"(whatever that means).

Yes, the second law can be interpreted to mean that certain things will not happen "spontaneously." Heat will not spontaneously flow from cold temperature regions to high-temperature regions. "Spontaneously" here means "with release of stored internal energy." "Non-spontaneously" would be "by application of external energy."

There's nothing about order in any of this, or the need for intelligent direction, or the need for design. No basic law of physics makes reference to intelligent direction or design, because the laws of physics are the same in all cases. "There's nothing you can do that can't be done." -- Lennon/McCartney

23 posted on 05/09/2002 4:47:29 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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