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The
Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is accepted as one of the basic laws of
physics, holds that under normal conditions all systems left on their own will
tend to become disordered, dispersed, and corrupted in direct relation to the
amount of time that passes.
Everything
living or non-living wears out, deteriorates, decays, disintegrates, and is
destroyed. This is the absolute end that all beings will face one way or another
and according to this law, this unavoidable process has no return.
This
is something that all of us have observed. For example, if you take a car to a
desert and leave it there, you would hardly expect to find it in a better
condition when you come back years later. On the contrary, you would see that
its tires had gone flat, its windows had been broken, its chassis had rusted,
and its motor had decayed. The same inevitable process holds true and even more
quickly for living things.
The
Second Law of Thermodynamics is the means by which this natural process is
defined with physical equations and calculations.
This
famous law of physics is also known as the “Law of Entropy". Entropy is
the range of the disorder involved in a system in physics. A system’s entropy
is increased as it moves towards a more disordered, dispersed, and unplanned
state from an ordered, organized, and planned one. The higher a system’s
disorder, the higher is its entropy. The Law of Entropy holds that the entire
universe unavoidably proceeds towards a more disordered, unplanned, and
disorganized state.
The
validity of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or the Law of Entropy, is
experimentally and theoretically established. The most important scientists of
our age agree on the fact that the Law of Entropy will preside as the ruling
paradigm over the next period of history. Albert Einstein, the greatest
scientist of our age, said that it is the "premier law of all of
science". Sir Arthur Eddington also referred to it as the "supreme
metaphysical law of the entire universe".1
Evolutionary
theory is an assertion that is advanced by totally ignoring this basic and
universally true law of physics. The mechanism offered by evolution totally
contradicts this law. The theory of evolution says that disordered, dispersed,
and lifeless atoms and molecules spontaneously came together in time in a
certain order and plan to form extremely complex molecules such as proteins,
DNA, and RNA after which they gradually brought about millions of different living species with even more complex structures.
According to the evolutionary theory, this supposed process that yields a more
planned, more ordered, more complex and more organized structure at each stage
has formed all by itself under natural conditions. The Law of Entropy makes it
clear that this so-called natural process utterly contradicts the laws of physics.
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Evolution
claims that disordered molecules spontaneously came together to form
highly complex molecules |
Evolutionist
scientists are also aware of this fact. J.H. Rush states:
“In
the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the
tendency expressed in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Where the Second Law
expresses an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder,
life evolves continually higher levels of order.”2
The
evolutionist scientist Roger Lewin expresses the thermodynamic impasse of
evolution in an article in Science:
“One
problem biologists have faced is the apparent contradiction by evolution of the
Second Law of Thermodynamics. Systems should decay through time, giving less,
not more, order.”3
As
acknowledged, the Second Law of Thermodynamics constitutes an insurmountable
obstacle for the scenario of evolution in terms of both science and logic.
Unable to put forth any scientific and consistent explanation to overcome this
obstacle, evolutionists can only defeat it in their imagination. For instance,
the famous evolutionist Jeremy Rifkin notes his belief that evolution overwhelms
this law of physics with a "magical power":
“The
Entropy Law says that evolution dissipates the overall available energy for life
on this planet. Our concept of evolution is the exact opposite. We believe that
evolution somehow magically creates greater overall value and order on earth.”4
These
words very well indicate that evolution is totally a dogmatic belief.
The Myth of the "Open System"
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Darwin |
Confronted by all these truths, evolutionists have had to take refuge in a
mangling of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, saying that it holds true only for
"closed systems" and that "open systems" are beyond the
scope of this law.
An
"open system" is a thermodynamic system in which energy matter flow in
and out, unlike a "closed system", in which the initial energy and
matter remains constant. Evolutionists hold that the world is an open
system: that it is constantly exposed to an energy flow from the sun, that the
law of entropy does not apply for the world as a whole, and that ordered,
complex living beings can be generated from disordered, simple, and inanimate
structures.
However,
there is an obvious distortion here. The fact that a system has an energy
inflow is not enough to make that system ordered. Specific mechanisms are needed
to make the energy functional. For instance, a car needs a motor, a
transmission system, and related control mechanisms to convert the energy in
gasoline to work. Without such an energy conversion system, the car will not be
able to use the energy in gasoline.
The
same thing applies in the case of life as well. It is true that life derives its
energy from the sun. However, solar energy can only be converted into chemical
energy by the incredibly complex energy conversion systems in living things
(such as photosynthesis in plants and the digestive systems of humans and
animals). No living thing can live without such energy conversion systems.
Without an energy conversion system, the sun is nothing but a source of
destructive energy that burns, parches, or melts.
As
may be seen, a thermodynamic system without an energy conversion mechanism of
some sort is not advantageous for evolution, be it open or closed. No one
asserts that such complex and conscious mechanisms could have existed in nature
under the conditions of the primeval earth. Indeed, the real problem confronting
evolutionists is the question of how complex energy converting mechanisms such
as photosynthesis in plants, which cannot be duplicated even with modern
technology, could have come into being on its own.
The
influx of solar energy into the world has no effect that would on its own bring
order. No matter how high the temperature may become, amino acids resist forming
bonds in ordered sequences. Energy by itself is not enough to make amino acids
form the much more complex molecules of proteins or for proteins to form the
much complex and organised structures of cell organelles. The real and essential
source of this organization at all levels is conscious design: in a word,
creation.
All
the information stressed in this article makes it clear that evolution is a
dogma that is against empirical science and the origin of living beings can only
be explained by the intervention of a supernatural power. That supernatural
power is the creation of God, who created the entire universe from nothing.
Science has proven that evolution is still impossible as far as thermodynamics
is concerned and the existence of life has no explanation but creation.
This
article was excerpted from its original version which may be read in full at:
http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2002/12/Article02.shtml.
Feel
free to join our Evolution
debate in IslamOnline’s Discussion Board.
1-
Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, New York, Viking Press, 1980,
p. 6.
2-
J. H. Rush, The Dawn of Life, New York, Signet, 1962, p. 35.
3-
Roger Lewin, "A Downward Slope to Greater Diversity", Science, vol.
217, 24.9.1982, p. 1239.
4-
Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: A New World View, p. 55.
The
author, who writes under the pen-name Harun Yahya, was born in Ankara in 1956. He studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, the author has published many books on political, faith-related and scientific issues. Harun Yahya is well known as an author who has written very important works disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, the invalidity of their claims and the dark liaisons between Darwinism and bloody ideologies. Some of the books of the author have been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Albanian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Turkish, Tatar, Urdu and Malay and published in the countries concerned.
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