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Ther modynamics
Falsifies Evolution
he second law of thermodynamics, main the principle paradigm for the foreseeable
which is accepted as one of the basic future. Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of
T laws of physics, holds that under nor- our age, described it as the "premier law of all of
mal conditions all systems left on their own tend science". Sir Arthur Eddington also referred to it
to become disordered, dispersed, and corrupted as the "supreme metaphysical law of the entire
in direct relation to the amount of time that universe". 1
passes. Everything, whether living or not wears Evolutionary theory ignores this fundamental
out, deteriorates, decays, disintegrates, and is law of physics. The mechanism offered by evolu-
destroyed. This is the absolute end that all be- tion totally contradicts the second law. The the-
ings will face one way or another, and according ory of evolution says that disordered, dispersed,
to the law, the process cannot be avoided. and lifeless atoms and molecules spontaneously
This is something that all of us have observed. came together over time, in a particular order, to
For example if you take a car to a desert and form extremely complex molecules such as pro-
leave it there, you would hardly expect to find it in teins, DNA, and RNA, whereupon millions of dif-
a better condition when you came back years ferent living species with even more complex
later. On the contrary, you would see that its tires structures gradually emerged. According to the
had gone flat, its windows had been broken, its theory of evolution, this supposed process-
chassis had rusted, and its engine had stopped which yields a more planned, more ordered,
working. The same inevitable process holds true more complex and more organised structure at
for living things. each stage-was formed all by itself under natural
conditions. The law of entropy makes it clear that
The second law of thermodynamics is the
this so-called natural process utterly contradicts
means by which this natural process is defined
the laws of physics.
with physical equations and calculations.
This famous law of physics is also known as Evolutionist scientists are also aware of this
"the law of entropy". In physics, entropy is the fact. J.H. Rush states:
measure of the disorder of a system. A system's
In the complex course of its evolution, life ex-
entropy increases as it moves from an ordered,
hibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency
organised, and planned state towards a more dis-
expressed in the Second Law of
ordered, dispersed, and unplanned one. The 2
Thermodynamics.
more disorder there is in a system, the higher its
The evolutionist author Roger Lewin ex-
entropy is. The law of entropy holds that the en-
presses the thermodynamic impasse of evolu-
tire universe is unavoidably proceeding towards
tion in an article in Science:
a more disordered, unplanned, and disorganised
state. One problem biologists have faced is the ap-
The truth of the second law of thermodynam- parent contradiction by evolution of the sec-
ics, or the law of entropy, has been experimen- ond law of thermodynamics. Systems should
tally and theoretically established. All foremost decay through time, giving less, not more,
scientists agree that the law of entropy will re- order. 3
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