Gonz wrote:
Juan Buhler wrote:
On 2/17/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What about the 2nd law of Thermodynamics?
The 2nd law should never be the reason you don't keep your room neat.
Same for it applied to evolution--you can obtain order out of a
chaotic system if you apply energy to it. Evolution doesn't contradict
the second law.
Evolution doesnt, but life sure does. Imagine the simplest possible
self replicating organic entity.
What would that be, an amoeba?
If you don't like that one, suggest another.
I'd think the very simplest might well not be very stout, and a little
too fragile for survival in the seemingly chemically chaotic disorder
like the primordial soups are always portrayed.
keith whaley
Viruses dont count since they dont
self replicate. Now imagine that entity just appearing, essentially,
out of nothing, because since there was no previous self replication, it
must have sprung out of nothing. *That* seems to disobey the second law
to me.
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Juan Buhler
