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sec ond law of ther mo dy nam ics. dust par ti cles can nev er or der them -
Ordinarily, the sec ond law is stat ed for selves by us ing the en er gy of the
iso lat ed sys tems, but the sec ond law wind to pro duce a rec og niz a ble im -
ap plies equal ly well to open sys tems. . age of, say, a hu man be ing.
. . there is some how as so ci at ed with the
Similarly, when the A key on a
field of far-from-equi lib ri um phe nom e -
key board is pressed re peat ed ly
na the no tion that the sec ond law of
(with a cor re spond ing flow of en er -
ther mo dy nam ics fails for such sys -
gy en ter ing the sys tem), the re sult is
tems. It is im por tant to make sure that
doz ens of rep e ti tions of the let ter, as
this er ror does not per pet u ate it self. 78
in aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aaa . . . However,
this con stant rep e ti tion con tains no
in for ma tion, no com plex i ty. For a se -
ORDERED SYSTEM
quence of let ters to con tain in for ma -
The the o ry of ev o lu tion clear ly
tion in the form of a mean ing ful sen -
con flicts with the sec ond law of ther -
tence, par a graph or book, an in tel li -
mo dy nam ics (the law of en tro py),
gent, or der ing mind is ab so lute ly es -
one of the most ba sic laws of phys -
sen tial.
ics. (See The Second Law of
As a re sult, no com plex, or ga -
Thermodynamics)
nized sys tem can ev er arise through
According to this ex per i men tal ly
nat u ral proc ess es, al though sim ple
prov en the o ry, all sys tems in the
com bi na tions of the kind de scribed
uni verse, left to their own de vi ces,
above may oc cur from time to time.
will suf fer dis or der, dis rup tion and
These ar range ments nev er go be -
im pair ment in di rect re la tion to the
yond spe cif ic lim its, how e ver.
pas sage of time.
Yet ev o lu tion ists de pict ex am ples
In or der not to vi o late this sci en -
of self-or der ing that arise spon ta ne -
tif ic law, ev o lu tion ists use var i ous
ous ly in this way as sig nif i cant ev i -
con cepts in a mis lead ing man ner.
dence for ev o lu tion, por tray ing them
They main tain that spe cif ic or der can
as sup posed ex am ples of self-or gan i -
arise in sys tems un der go ing con stant
za tion. As a re sult of this mis con cep -
ex chan ges of mat ter and en er gy.
tion, they sug gest that liv ing sys tems
For ex am ple, when wind en ters a
can emerge spon ta ne ous ly as a re sult
dusty room, it may move all the dust
of nat u ral chem i cal re ac tions.
that has set tled and de pos it it in one
However, or dered sys tems and
cor ner of the room. However, these
or ga nized sys tems have to tal ly dis -
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