Comments on: Tension between Science and Theology http://bibleseo.com/christian-life/tension-between-science-and-theology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tension-between-science-and-theology Bible Study Lessons | Free Inductive Study Guides Sat, 05 May 2012 19:35:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ricardo navarro jr http://bibleseo.com/christian-life/tension-between-science-and-theology/#comment-14914 ricardo navarro jr Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:06:39 +0000 http://bibleseo.com/?p=43#comment-14914 all living things &none living things was created by GOD now sciencetist observed created by GOD all living things &none living things was created by GOD now sciencetist observed created by GOD

]]> By: Dave http://bibleseo.com/christian-life/tension-between-science-and-theology/#comment-4881 Dave Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:53:34 +0000 http://bibleseo.com/?p=43#comment-4881 The second law is misrepresented here. It says that CLOSED system increase in entropy (roughly speaking, entropy is a measure of disorder, but this is overly simplistic). Since the Earth is not a closed system, the second law doesn't apply to it. The Earth is an open system because we have this great ball of energy in the sky: the Sun. This provides the energy for systems here on Earth to become more complex and have a lower entropy. But in you take the FULL system, which includes the Sun and the Earth, then the overall entropy is going down: what little entropy lost on Earth is more than balanced by the entropy gained in the Sun. Evolution doesn't contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics because evolution works on open systems (namely, populations of replicating organisms). More generally, evolution doesn't even say that things have to get more complex; it just says that the frequency of inheritable traits changes over time. So, yeah, this article is wrong from beginning to end. Just FYI. The second law is misrepresented here. It says that CLOSED system increase in entropy (roughly speaking, entropy is a measure of disorder, but this is overly simplistic). Since the Earth is not a closed system, the second law doesn’t apply to it.

The Earth is an open system because we have this great ball of energy in the sky: the Sun. This provides the energy for systems here on Earth to become more complex and have a lower entropy. But in you take the FULL system, which includes the Sun and the Earth, then the overall entropy is going down: what little entropy lost on Earth is more than balanced by the entropy gained in the Sun.

Evolution doesn’t contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics because evolution works on open systems (namely, populations of replicating organisms). More generally, evolution doesn’t even say that things have to get more complex; it just says that the frequency of inheritable traits changes over time.

So, yeah, this article is wrong from beginning to end. Just FYI.

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