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It is well known that, left to themselves, chemical compounds ultimately break apart into simpler
materials; they do not ultimately become more complex. Outside forces can increase order for a time
(through the expenditure of relatively large amounts of energy, and through the input of some
intelligent design). However, such reversal cannot last forever. Once the force is released, processes
return to their natural direction – greater disorder. Their energy is transformed into lower levels of
availability for further work. The natural tendency of complex, ordered arrangements and systems is to
become simpler and more disorderly with time.

Naturalistic Evolutionism requires that physical laws and atoms organize themselves into increasingly
complex and beneficial, ordered arrangements. Thus, over eons of time, billions of things are supposed
to have developed upward, becoming more orderly and complex.

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However, this basic law of science (2 Law of Thermodynamics) reveals the exact opposite. In the long
run, complex, ordered arrangements actually tend to become simpler and more disorderly with time.
There is an irreversible downward trend ultimately at work throughout the universe. Evolution, with its
ever increasing order and complexity, appears impossible in the natural world.

The distinguished scientist and origins expert, Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith, puts it this way:
“What is the difference then between a stick, which is dead, and an orchid which is alive? The
difference is that the orchid has teleonomy (information for purpose) in it. It is a machine which
is capturing energy to increase order. Where you have life, you have teleonomy, and then the
Sun’s energy can be taken and make the thing grow – increasing its order” [temporarily].
“The pure chemistry of a cell is not enough to explain the working of a cell, although the
workings are chemical. The chemical workings of a cell are controlled by information which does
not reside in the atoms and molecules.” 111

The Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum applied to the universe says “”if
a spinning object explodes, the pieces breaking off from that object are going to
spin in the same direction”. The Big Bang theory (nebular hypothesis) says that a
revolving nebula collapsed, then exploded forming the stars, galaxies, and
planets as we know them between 14 and 17 billion years ago. If this were true,
then all the planets and their orbits should all be spinning or orbiting in the same
direction as the original revolving nebula. This is called a prograde rotation.

However, there are three planets (Venus, Uranus, and “Pluto” – (just lost planet
status)) and several moons that revolve backwards called retrograde rotation. Triton, Neptune’s large
moon, and Charon, Pluto’s satellite, all orbit retrograde. The moons Ananke, Carme, Pasiphaë and
Sinope all orbit Jupiter in a retrograde direction. Many other minor moons of Jupiter orbit retrograde.
The moon Phoebe orbits Saturn in a retrograde direction. Some comets have a retrograde orbit. Some
moons even orbit the planet backwards! 112 Obviously, if the nebular hypothesis were true, then these
retrograde orbits fly in the face of this law.

Irreducible Complexity
As scientists study systems within living things, they have discovered that some
systems are extremely complex and have systems that require other systems to
perform their function so they can perform theirs. If any one of these inter-related

111 https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-thermodynamics.html
112 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_and_prograde_motion
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