Jack quoted (from a person who ought to know better):
> " (snip) (1) The book of Romans tells readers that the entire creation
> is subject to the law of decay. Again, a scientist would see this
> statement as an obvious reference to the second law of thermodynamics.
> ...."
George Andrews' zwei Pfennigs:
> I think it important -- if not critical! -- to understand that the
> second law drives systems to higher degrees of complexity locally. This
> is the driving mechanism for evolution in all of its manifestations;
> e.g. stellar formation, pulsed lasers, etc. To equate the 2'nd law with
> decay alone, is therefore missleading.
And utterly ridiculous!
Another Pfennig: To all who would consider the Second Law of Thermodynamics
to be a "law of decay" that follows from human sin, consider a world in
which the Second Law were suspended.
For instance, suppose that you and your beloved were, in a moment of
affectionate communion, holding hands in this world without thermodynamic
decay. Given this opportunity for heat to flow from one body to another, and
given that heat could now spontaneously flow from a cooler body to a warmer
body, it is entirely possible for your dearly beloved to freeze to death as
you yourself are cooked to death.
If that's a perfect world, I don't want to go there. Long live the infamous
"law of decay."
Howard Van Till
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