Does evolution violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics?Evolutionists state that "it only applies to closed systems, and biological creatures are open systems, so it doesn't affect evolution." The fact is that the Second Law applies to all systems, open or closed, and to all actions and chemical reactions, from molecules to galaxies. The words "except for..." are not in this universal law. A thermodynamics system is simply any part of the universe we want to study. If we are doing an experiment in a bottle, the inside of the bottle is our system and the bottle itself is the "walls" of the system. There are only 3 kinds of systems: if no energy or matter can pass through the walls, it is an isolated system; if energy can pass through but matter cannot, it is a closed system; if both energy and matter can pass through the walls, it is an open system. Now, it is true that the laws of thermodynamics and entropy are defined in terms of isolated systems, because that is the simplest way to express them. However, experts who write textbooks on the subject are quick to say that isolated systems do not occur in nature. For practical applications, a procedure called the Legendre Transform mathematically converts entropy to a variable called Gibbs free energy that is useful for working with real-world systems. Most natural systems are open, but it is convenient to model them as closed. For example, even though a bacterium is an open system, modeling it as a closed system makes it easier to understand chemical reactions in it.You are an open system. You eat food (which comes from outside yourself) and your body survives and grows. Evolutionists believe that all we need is an open system with sufficient energy flowing into it for evolution to succeed. If that were so, you could just stand right behind a jet engine as the aircraft prepares for takeoff, absorb that blast of energy, and evolve to a higher life form. In reality, of course, you would be incinerated because absorbing energy without a mechanism to convert it to a useful form and employ it is destructive or useless. The mechanism must be very specific. Sticking food in your ear will not work; it must go into your mouth and through the digestive system. And the mechanism must be in place and functioning first, before energy is added, or the energy is wasted. The "open system" ploy is just an attempt to avoid dealing with the Second Law because the Law prohibits any functioning biological mechanism from falling together by pure chance, without assistance or plan, using only the properties of matter.
Is this statement true?
Posted by taylor
You misinterpret the use of the word energy, it does not me flames, it means our source of enery, which is calories.
Posted by MiLF
When you die you'll know, but you won't remember.
Posted by Loopytop33
What you say isn't really obvious... I can see how you think what you do but thermodynamics doen't really link that much to evolution. I do wish we could just eat energy to evolve but it just isn't the way the world works.
Posted by Brother Otter
This question has been asked before and the answer last time was "No". It's still "No".
You're making an unsupported declaration about what "Evolutionists believe".
The point of Evolution is: random mutations occur in the process of transmitting information from one generation to the next, and survival determines whether those mutations are beneficial or lethal.
I would argue that standing behind a jet engine falls in the "dummy believes standing behind a jet engine will make him evolve" catagory. A definite candidate for a Darwin Award.
Posted by gardengallivant
Plants and other autotrophs have the ability to fix carbon by converting the influx of solar energy into into chemical potential energy that can be consumed by animals. In this way there is a constant input of energy into the planet's total useful quantity of energy.
As long as the sun provides the planet with energy and autotroph's fix it into forms usable by other organisms there will be energy for life to proceed.
Life as defined on this planet is cell based and self organizing. The means of self organization is regulated by the inheritance of genetic traits. Traits have variation between them. Therefore at any given time some combination of traits will tend to provide an advantageous difference in reproduction. Over time this will tend to increase the specific combination of traits in the population so they become more frequent.
Evolution is the change within a population of the frequency of the various alleles in the genome. Errors in crossover and duplication constantly add mutations plus there are mechanisms for lateral transmission of DNA. This makes evolution the basic response of life with imperfectly copied heritable traits inevitable.
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