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To: LadyDoc
Evolution itself goes against the law of entropy, implying there is something in evolution that pushes toward complexity. In the PC days of Darwin, they called this the "life force".

Ah, doc? That's just not true. All the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (2LoT) says about evolution is: Living organisms must eat to survive. This is because in order to keep the disorder at bay, they must move molecules around, and in order to move molecules around they must expend energy. This says nothing about evolution per se, and this doesn't make life or evolution impossible. It only implies that all living things must eat.

974 posted on 06/18/2002 12:25:44 PM PDT by jennyp
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To: jennyp
Entropy is physics...material world---biology is totally different!
978 posted on 06/18/2002 12:33:54 PM PDT by f.Christian
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RE: The first and second law of thermodynamics (as sung by Flanders and Swan):

The First law of Thermodynamics.
Heat is work and work is heat
The Second law of thermodynamics.
Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body
Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter
You can try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler

Heat is work and work is heat and work is heat and heat is work
Heat will pass by conduction and
Heat will pass by convection and
Heat will pass by radiation
And that's a physical law

Heat is work and work's a curse
And all the heat in the universe
Is gonna cool down,
'Cos it can't increase
Then there'll be no more work
And there'll be perfect peace
Really?
Yeah, that's entropy, Man.
And all because of the second law of thermodynamics which lays down:

That you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter
Try it if you like but you'd far better not-a
'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler

Oh, you can't pass heat from a cooler to a hotter
Try it if you like but you'll only look a fool-a
'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a
And that's a physical law That's because you've been working!
Oh, Beatles, nothing!

That's the first and second laws of thermodynamics. (TA DA!))

1,037 posted on 06/18/2002 3:16:31 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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