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To: DMaA who wrote (12370)	2/24/2000 12:03:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

A better way of phrasing it would be that science can explain just about anything in terms of natural causes.....that is, matter in motion.......

To: DMaA who wrote (12370)	2/24/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

I was referring to modern science, not real science. THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS Definitions. The law, which in this article we will call "the second law," is also called the Law of Increasing Entropy." This law has several applications, but here is the basic definition: All systems will tend toward the most mathematically probable state, and eventually become totally random and disorganized. All science bows low before the second law (even though evolutionists refuse to). Even *Albert Einstein declared it to be the one law which he believed could never be eliminated. The downward trend, predicted by this law, is called "entropy." It is also called the Entropy Principle. Entropy is disorder. So the law is the "law of increasing disorder." Another term used to describe it is "time's arrow." The second law says everything heads downward; no upward arrow is possible. Applications. Here are some of the applications of this law: (1) Left to itself, everything eventually goes to pieces. Wood rots, steel rusts, buildings fall apart, chemical compounds deteriorate. (2) The energy available for useful work in a functioning system tends to decrease, even though the total energy remains constant. As energy levels decrease and organs wear out, people get old and die. (3) The order of a structured system erodes and becomes disorganized and random. (4) The information conveyed by a communicating system tends to become distorted and incomplete. Why is it that living beings keep organizing and improving, in apparent violation of the second law? What they are actually doing is working hard to offset the effects of the second law. A spider makes a perfect web. But then, soon, it is broken, and he must make another. According to the second law, if left to itself, the web would disintegrate. It is only the work of the spider which keeps renewing it. A house decays, loses paint, and falls into disrepair. Pipes leak, floors rot out, and the roof eventually tumbles in. The second law is at work. It is only because of that law that people must continually maintain and repair the house. Thus we see it takes labor to withstand the second law, which is always tearing down. Actually, given enough time, the sun would burn itself out and the galaxies would go to pieces. Apart from supernatural intervention, nothing can withstand the second law.