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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Entropy - the increasing unavailability of evidence for Evolution.
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 21:04:55 EDT
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> After reading over my last posting I decided to add a little more to
> it for clarity sake.

>>   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

You've hit on it...  Simply the fact that you grow from a single cell
into a human being is an example of increasing complexity, and I might add
exposure to outside energy (food, sunlight, etc.) is allowing this.  
And, we know these systems 'programs' exist.  I see no reason to assume
that these 'programs' could not have arisen naturally.  Thermonuclear
reactions on the sun have the effect of converting lower elements to higher
ones, increasing the atomic weight and atomic complexity.  Thru heat,
and expending energy, a higher complexity can be achieved naturally, 
and is happening all the time.

Keith Doyle
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