coyote
"Snowflakes, sand dunes, tornadoes, stalactites, graded river beds, and lightning are just a few examples of order coming from disorder in nature; none require an intelligent program to achieve that order."
I explained these in my first post. These are examples of patterns are not designs or codes/languages.
""No process is possible in which the sole result is the transfer of energy from a cooler to a hotter body." [Atkins, 1984, The Second Law, pg. 25] Now you may be scratching your head wondering what this has to do with evolution. The confusion arises when the 2nd law is phrased in another equivalent way, "The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease.".
The entropy of a closed system does decrease and that is the point of the 2cd law of thermodynamics. The total amount of energy remains constant but the amount of energy which is availably to perform useful work diminishes. That is one definition of entropy. The 2cd law of thermodynamics has been mistated in your statement form Talk Origins.
Life is a net consumer of energy because life increases entropy. Life consumes useful energy and returns less useful energy than it consumes to the universe. The total energy does not change, only the useful energy dimishes and unuseful energy slowly increases.
The overall direction of the universe is winding down. And increasing entropy is the reason. As stars burn out, they are moving from a higher order of complexity to a lower. If you believe the Big Bang, then entropy was at it's lowest level 1 second after the singularity exploded and has been increasing ever since.
Regardless of how you Darwinistas spin entropy, increasing complexity over time violates the law of entropy. The entire universe is going the other way.
