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From: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Entropy - the increasing unavailability of evidence for Evolution.
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 17:19:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 17:19:13 1985
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Reply-To: dan@scgvaxd.UUCP (Dan Boskovich)
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 After reading over my last posting I decided to add a little more to
 it for clarity sake.

>Closed systems can produce smaller parts (Earth) with higher order than the
>rest of the environment.  This is not a problem.
Question?
>Why do you say that ice is more ordered than liquid water?

>Because it is less random; the molecules are not free to wander around
>to the same extent that they can in a liquid.

>In other words, water, when acted upon by an external energy source,
>(electricity), with a driving mechanism and a program for specific
>work, (refrigeration), is transformed to a state of higher order.
>But when left to its own devices reverts back to a lower order or
>random state.

 In this example, the water reaches a higher level of order by a
 a specific program and mechanism for transferring the energy (heat) from
 the water into the outside area.
 However, even though the entropy is decreased within, resulting in a higher
 state of order, it is done at the expense of greater entropy in the overall
 system.
 It is very important to note here that it was NOT an influx of external
 energy alone which brought about the increase in order and decrease in
 entropy, but a highly mechanized program using external energy to transfer
 energy from the water.

 Had the water been exposed to an influx of external energy, without
 the mechanized program of refrigeration, the entire system would have
 experienced an increase in entropy, including a greater increase in
 entropy and decrease in order for the subsystem in question.

   Increase of Entropy = Total influx of energy
			 ----------------------
			  Absolute Temperature

 Thus, the greater the outside heat energy that enters the system, the
 greater the increase in entropy and disorder!

 And so I must re-emphasize!

>   There are systems which do manifest an increasing degree of comlexity.
>   These are open systems and draw on external sources of energy. However,
>   merely having an open system and energy available from the sun does
>   not automatically generate higher order in that system.

>   No system shows an increasing order unless it also possesses a specific
>   program to direct its growth and a complex mechanism to convert the
>   suns energy into specific work. Examples of such directive programs
>   are DNA in living systems, and plans and specifications for
>   construction of artificial systems. Mechanisms for storing and
>   converting energy would be photosynthesis in plants, metabolism in
>   animals, and machinery in artificial construction.

    Every system when left to its own devices always tend to move from order
    to disorder............uniform low-level temperature, the universe
    will have died a heat death!


				       Dan