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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Now more than ever.  PART I
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 15:47:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 20 15:47:35 1985
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> > { from: miller@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA (A Ray Miller) }
> > 
> > It has been suggested by some, that thermodynamics does not apply to
> > evolution.  Indeed, one evolutionist on the net, after giving us the
> > entropy equation for heat flow, concluded:

    It wasn't the entropy equation for heat flow, it was how the well-known
textbook, University Physics, by (somebody), Zemanski and Young, *defines*
entropy.
> > 
> > > In other words, people, the second law of thermodynamics, as the
> > > name implies, has to do with *thermodynamics*, and cannot be mean-
> > > ingfully applied to any other field.
> 
> You probably misquoted him.  I seriously doubt he means this literally.
> If he does, then he is seriously wrong.
> 
     All right then, please provide a rigorous definition of entropy 
along with your source, which allows the concept to be applied quantitatively
to things like evolution (or any other non-thermodynamic process).
> Keebler { hua@cmu-cs-gandalf.arpa }

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