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From: rob@osiris.UUCP (Robert St. Amant)
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Subject: Second Law
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Someone used the Second Law of Thermodynamics as an argument for creationism.
In a philosophy course I attended here at Hopkins, the idea was presented
that the Second Law isn't a law, but an observation.  Entropy may follow a
jagged sort of curve, increasing sometimes, decreasing other times (on a
_very_ large time scale.)

Any comments from those in the know?  I don't know that much about physics.

				Rob St. Amant