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dissipates the overall available energy The same thing applies in the case of life
for life on this planet. Our concept of as well. It is true that life derives its energy
evolution is the exact opposite. We from the sun. However, solar energy can
believe that evolution somehow only be converted into chemical energy by
magically creates greater overall value the incredibly complex energy conversion
and order on earth. 5 systems in living things (such as
These words well indicate that photosynthesis in plants and the digestive
evolution is a dogmatic belief rather than systems of humans and animals). No
a scientific thesis. living thing can live without such energy
conversion systems. Without an energy

The Myth of the "Open System" conversion system, the sun is nothing but
Confronted by all these truths, a source of destructive energy that burns,
evolutionists have had to take refuge in a parches, or melts.
mangling of the second law of As can be seen, a thermodynamic
thermodynamics, saying that it holds true system without an energy conversion
only for "closed systems," and that "open mechanism of some sort is not
systems" are beyond the scope of this law. advantageous for evolution, be it open or
An "open system" is a thermodynamic closed. No one asserts that such complex
system in which energy and matter flow and conscious mechanisms could have
in and out. Evolutionists hold that the existed in nature under the conditions of
world is an open system: that it is the primeval earth. Indeed, the real
constantly exposed to an energy flow problem confronting evolutionists is the
from the sun, that the law of entropy does question of how complex energy-
not apply to the world as a whole, and converting mechanisms, such as
that ordered, complex living beings can be photosynthesis in plants, which cannot be
generated from disordered, simple, and duplicated even with modern technology,
inanimate structures. could have come into being on their own.
However, there is an obvious distortion The influx of solar energy into the
here. The fact that a system has an energy world would be unable to bring about
inflow is not enough to make that system order on its own. Moreover, no matter
ordered. Specific mechanisms are needed how high the temperature may become,
to make the energy functional. For amino acids resist forming bonds in
instance, a car needs an engine, a ordered sequences. Energy by itself is
transmission system, and related control incapable of making amino acids form the
mechanisms to convert the energy in much more complex molecules of
petrol to work. Without such an energy proteins, or of making proteins form the
conversion system, the car will not be able much more complex and organised
to use the energy in petrol. structures of cell organelles. The real and