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190 The Second Law of Thermodynamics (The Law of Entropy)

At all events we should say, in sum - est rec es ses of the at om, we en coun ter
ming up, that, ac cord ing to ev ery thing or der. . . Central to the idea of a very
taught by the ex act sci en ces about the spe cial, or der ly Universe is the con cept
im mense realm of na ture in which our of in for ma tion. A high ly struc tured
ti ny plan et plays an in sig nif i cant role, sys tem, dis play ing a great deal of or -
a cer tain or der pre vails—one in de - gan ised ac tiv i ty, needs a lot of in for -
pend ent of the hu man mind. Yet, in so ma tion to de scribe it. Alternatively, we
far as we are able to as cer tain through may say that it con tains much in for -
our sens es, this or der can be for mu lat - ma tion.
ed in terms of pur pose ful ac tiv i ty.
We are there fore pre sent ed with a cu ri -
There is ev i dence of an in tel li gent or -
ous ques tion. If in for ma tion and or der
der of the uni verse. 211
al ways has a nat u ral tend en cy to dis -
Materialism, which main tains ap pear, where did all the in for ma tion
that the uni verse has ex ist ed for ev er that makes the world such a spe cial
and has nev er been or dered in any place come from orig i nal ly? The
way, is to day in an im passe in the Universe is like a clock slow ly run ning
face of the uni verse's great equi lib ri - down. How did it get wound up in the
um. The well-known British phys i - first place? 212
cist Paul Davies says: Einstein said that the or der in the
Everywhere we look in the Universe, uni verse was some thing un ex pect ed
from the far-flung gal ax ies to the deep - and stat ed that it need ed to be re -
gard ed as a mir a cle:
Well, a pri o ri one should ex pect that
the world would be ren dered law ful

In or der for the en er gy in a car's fu el to be
con vert ed, there is a need for trans mis -
sion sys tems and con trol mech a -
nisms to op er ate them, is be -
cause en er gy en ter ing a
sys tem from the out -
side is not enough
to make that
sys tem an or -
dered, ef fi -
cient one.