Page 301 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

books, which are completely theoretical and
include a large number of mathematical
propositions which cannot be implemented in
real life and which there is no possibility of
observing, have been criticized by scientists,
recognized as experts in the fields of physics,
chemistry and thermodynamics, as having no
practical and concrete value.
Ilya Prigogine
For instance, P. Hohenberg, a physicist
regarded as an expert in the fields of statistical
mechanics and pattern formation, and one of the authors of the book
Review of Modern Physics, sets out his comments on Prigogine's studies in
the May 1995 edition of Scientific American:
I don't know of a single phenomenon his theory has explained. 363
And Cosma Shalizi, a theoretical physicist from Wisconsin
University, has this to say about the fact that Prigogine's studies have
reached no firm conclusion or explanation:
…in the just under five hundred pages of his Self-Organization in
Nonequilibrium Systems, there are just four graphs of real-world data, and no
comparison of any of his models with experimental results. Nor are his
ideas about irreversibility at all connected to self-organization, except for
their both being topics in statistical physics. 364
The studies in the physical field by the determinedly materialist
Prigogine also had the intention of providing support for the theory of
evolution, because, as we have seen in the preceding pages, the theory of
evolution is in clear conflict with the entropy principle, i.e., the second law
of thermodynamics. The law of entropy, as we know, definitively states
that when any organized, and complex structure is left to natural
conditions, then loss of organization, complexity and information will
result. In opposition to this, the theory of evolution claims that unordered,
scattered, and unconscious atoms and molecules came together and gave
rise to living things with their organized systems.
Prigogine determined to try to invent formulae that would make
processes of this kind feasible.
However, all these efforts resulted in nothing but a series of
theoretical experiments.

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