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If you leave a bus unattended in the desert it will gradually fall apart and lose all its
            features. The next time you look, you see the tyres have burst, the windows have broken,
            the bodywork is rusted and the engine has failed. This inevitable process happens even
            faster in living things. In the same manner, all systems in the universe fall apart without
            conscious intervention.
          tendency expressed in the Second Law    complex organic molecule can ever form
          of Thermodynamics. Where the Second     spontaneously,  but   will   rather
          Law    expresses   an   irreversible    disintegrate, in agreement with the
          progression toward increased entropy    second law. Indeed, the more complex it
          and disorder, life evolves continually  is, the more unstable it will be, and the
          higher levels of order. 2               more assured, sooner or later, its
                                                  disintegration. Photosynthesis and all
          The evolutionist author Roger Lewin
                                                  life processes, and even life itself, cannot
        expresses the thermodynamic impasse of
                                                  yet be understood in terms of
        evolution in an article in Science:
                                                  thermodynamics or any other exact
          One problem biologists have faced is the
                                                  science, despite the use of confused or
          apparent contradiction by evolution of                              4
                                                  deliberately confusing language.
          the second law of thermodynamics.
                                                  As we have seen, the second law of
          Systems should decay through time,
                                               thermodynamics       constitutes   an
          giving less, not more, order. 3
                                               insurmountable obstacle for the scenario of
          Another defender of the theory of
                                               evolution, in terms of both science and
        evolution, George Stravropoulos, states the  logic. Unable to offer any scientific and
        thermodynamic impossibility of the     consistent explanation to overcome this
        spontaneous formation of life and the  obstacle, evolutionists can only do so in
        impossibility of explaining the existence of  their imagination. For instance, the well-
        complex living mechanisms by natural   known evolutionist Jeremy Rifkin notes
        laws in the well-known evolutionist    his belief that evolution overwhelms this
        journal American Scientist:            law of physics with a "magical power:"
          Yet, under ordinary conditions, no      The Entropy Law says that evolution
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