Re: [SPAM]RE: Are there things that don't evolve?

The entropy argument you reflected here comes from a fairly common, but
basic misunderstanding of entropy.
Withough rehashing the particulars, if nothing could go from less
complex to more complex, given the right circumstance, you (or I) would
not be here.
As living adult human beings, we are far more complex than the starting
zygote.
The reason that this increase in complexity/structure/information can
happen is because energy is introduced into "equation", food in our case.
The essential function of bio-things in creation is to store energy that
is recoverable and even portable. The result of our consuming nutrients
(energy) is clearly not just to sustain existing complexity, but - over
much of our life - growth in size and complexity.
This is just one example of movement toward greater complexity. There
are others - as for example, when we create a skyscraper, or when a
supernova creates heavy (and more complex) elements with greater
structural complexity and potential.
Either of these examples is "change by complication".
The general idea of things "running down", including erosion of
mountains and rotting of human flesh is valid when looking at the whole
universe-scale system. It does not, however, preclude local "eddys" part
of which move in the other direction when energy is introduced or
concentrated in that local area.
Hope this helps.
Regards - JimA

Debbie Mann wrote:

>Response to Dick:
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><"Isn't it just inaccurate to use the term "evolution" to mean "change"?
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><It's more accurate to call evolution "descent with modification" if you
>like a nice short definition.
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>'Descent'? Doesn't evolve' indicate 'ascent'? Evolution bothers me
>theoretically because it defies the law of entropy. Change by simplification
>wouldn't bother me - but change by complication does. I'd love it if your
>definitiion was the only 'evolution' there was.
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>Debbie Mann
>(765) 477-1776
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> -----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of Dick Fischer
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> Subject: [SPAM]RE: Are there things that don't evolve?
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> Hi Gregory, you wrote:
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> It's more accurate to call evolution "descent with modification" if you
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> Dick Fischer
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> ~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association
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> Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
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> www.genesisproclaimed.org
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Received on Sat Mar 25 01:02:31 2006