IMPACT No. 3

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EVOLUTION, THERMODYNAMICS, AND ENTROPY
by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.

Institute for Creation Research, PO Box 2667, El Cajon, CA 92021
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"Vital Articles on Science/Creation"
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The study of biological processes and phenomena indicates that significant evolutionary developments are not observable in the modern world. Similarly the great gaps in the fossil record

yes..there are no transitional fossils. . .

except for these(and some others):
PRIMATES:palaechthon, purgatorius, cantius, pelycodus, amphipithecus, pondaungia, parapithecus, propliopithecus, aegyptopithecus, aegyptopithecus, proconsul africanus, limnopithecus, dryopithecus, sivapithecus, kenyapithecus(the species that led to great apes and humans)
HOMINIDS:australopithecus ramidus, australopithecus afarensis, australopithecus africanus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens, neandertalensis
JAWLESS FISH TO SHARKS, SKATES AND RAYS:cladoselache, tristychius, ctenacanthus, paleospinax, spathobatis, protospinax
JAWLESS FISH TO BONY FISH:cheirolepis, mimia, canobius, aeduella, parasemionotus, oreochima, leptolepis
BONY FISH TO AMPHIBIANS:cheirolepis, osteolepis, eusthenopteron, sterropterygion, panderichthys, elpistostege, hynerpeton, acanthostega, ichtyhostega, pholidogaster, pteroplax
AMPHIBIANS:pholidogaster, dendrerpeton acadiamum, archegosaurus decheni, eryops megacephalus, trematops, amphibamus lyelli, doleserpeton annectens, triadobatrachus, vieraella, karaurus
AMPHIBIANS TO AMNIOTES:proterogyrinus, limnoscelis, tseajaia, solenodonsaurus, hylonomus, paleothyris
REPTILES:captorhinus, scutosaurus, deltavjatia vjatkensis, proganochelys, hylonomus, paleothyris, petrolacosaurus, araeoscelis, apsisaurus, claudiosaurus, planocephalosaurus, protorosaurus, prolacerta, proterosuchus, hyperodapedon, trilophosaurus
SYNAPSID REPTILES TO MAMMALS:paleothyris, protoclepsydrops haplous, clepsydrops, archaeothris, varanops, haptodus, dimetrodon, sphenacodon, biarmosuchia, procynosuchus, dvinia, thrinaxodon, cynognathus, diademodon, probelesodon, probainognathus, exaeretodon, oligokyphus, kayentatherium, pachygenelus, diarthrognathus, adelobasileus cromptoni, sinocondon, kuehneotherium, eozostrodon, morganucodon, haldanodon, peramus, endotherium, kielantherium, aegialodon, steropodon galmani, vincelestes neuquenianus, pariadens kirklandi, kennalestes, asioryctes, cimolestes, procerberus, gypsonictops
DIAPSID REPTILES TO BIRDS:coelophysis, deinonychus, oviraptor, lisboasaurus estesi, archeopteryx lithographica, sinornis santensis, ambiortus dementjevi, ambiortus dementjevi, hesperornis, ichthyornis
CARNIVORES:cimolestes, cimolestes incisus, cimolestes cerberoides, simpsonictis tenuis, paroodectes, vulpavus, viverravus sicarius
DOGS:cynodictis, hesperocyon, cynodesmus
BEARS:cynodictis, hesperocyon, ursavus elmensis, protursus simpsoni, ursus minimus, ursus etruscus, ursus savini, ursus spelaeus, ursus arctos, ursus maritimus
RACCOONS:phlaocyon
WEASELS:plesictis, potamotherium
SEALS, SEA LIONS, WALRUSES:pachycynodon, enaliarctos
SEALS:leptophoca, montherium
SEA LIONS:pithanotaria, thalassoleon
WALRUS:neotherium, imagotaria
CIVETS:stenoplesictis, palaeoprionodon, herpestides
CATS:haplogale, proailurus julieni, proailurus lemanesis, pseudaelurus, dinictis, hoplophoneus
HYENAS:herpestes antiquus, protictitherium crassum, plioviverrops orbignyi, tungurictis spocki, ictitherium viverrinum, thalassictis robusta, hyaenotherium wongii, miohyaenotherium bessarabicum, hyaenictitherium hyaenoides, palinhyaena reperta, ikelohyaena abronia, belbus beaumonti, leecyaena lycyaenoides, parahyaena brunnea, hyaena hyaena, hyaena brunnea, pliocrocuta perrieri, pachycrocuta brevirostris, adcrocuta eximia, crocuta crocuta, crocuta sivalensis, crocuta dietrichi
RODENTS:anagale, barunlestes, heomys, tribosphenomys minutus, acritoparamys, paramys
SQUIRRELS:paramys, protosciurus, sciurus
BEAVERS:paramys, paleocastor
RATS/MICE:paramys, eomyids, geomyoids
LAGOMORPHS:barunlestes, mimotoma, mimolagus, lushilagus, prolagus,
CONDYLARTHS (first hooved animals):protungulatum, hyopsodus, haplomylus speiriamus, haplomylus scottianus, haplomylus latidens, haplomylus simplex
WHALES & DOLPHINS:eocondon, microclaenodon, dissacus, hapalodectes, pakicetus, ambulocetus natans, rodhocetus, basilosaurus isis, protocetes, indocetus ramani, prozeuglodon, eocetus, dorudon intermedius
TOOTHED WHALES:agorophius, prosqualodon, kentriodon
BALEEN WHALES:aetiocetus, mesocetus
PERISSODACTYLS (horses, tapirs, rhinos):loxolophus, tetraclaenodon, radinskya yupingae, hyracotherium, hyracotherium vassacciense, orohippus, epihippus, mesohippus celer, mesohippus westoni, miohippus assiniboiensis, kalobatippus, parahippus, ‘parahippus’ leonensis, ‘merychippus’ gunteri, merychippus primus, dinohippus, plesippus, hippotigris, equus, loxolophus, tetraclaenodon, homagalax, heptodon, helaletes, prototapir, miotapirus, tapirus, hyrachyus, hyracodon, caenopus
ELEPHANTS:minchenella, phenacolophus, pilgrimella, moeritherium, numidotherium, barytherium, paleomastodon, phiomia, gomphotherium, stegotetrabelodon, primelelphas, primelephas gomphotheroides, loxodonta adaurora, elephas ekorensis, elephas recki, elephas hysudricus, mammuthus meridionalis, mammuthus armeniacus/trogontherii, mammuthus imperator
SIRENIANS:prorastomus, protosiren, eotheroides, halitherium, sirenotherium, potamosiren, ribodon
ARTIODACTYLS (cloven-hoofed animals):chriacus, diacodexis
HIPPOS & PIGS:helohyus, anthracotherium, propalaeochoerus, perchoerus, paleochoerus
CAMELS:diacodexis, homacodon, poebrodon, poebrotherium, protomeryx, procamelus, pliauchenia
RUMINANTS:diacodexis, homacodon, mesomeryx, hypertragulus, indomeryx, hyemoschus, archaeomeryx, leptomeryx, bachitherium, lophiomeryx, gelocus
DEER:prodremotherium, dicrocerus, acteocemas
GIRAFFES:eumeryx, climacoceras, canthumeryx, paleomeryx, palaeotragus, samotherium
PRONGHORNS:paracosoryx prodromus, merycodus
BOVIDS:eotragus, protragocerus, oiceros, gazella, leptodos, parabos

make it extremely doubtful that any genuine evolution,

yes..with a list that extensive, id doubt it to if i was henry morris..after all, what would i do for a living?

as distinct from small changes within the kinds, ever took place in the past.

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE DEFINE “BIBLICAL KIND”?..no creationist ever does!

Not only is there no evidence that evolution ever has taken place,

there is plenty..the fossil record..geology, paleontology, botany, zoology, herpetology, entomology, biogeography, anatomy, physiology, comparative anatomy

but there is also firm evidence that evolution never could take place.

“firm” evidence that evolution never could take place?..no..”fake” evidence that evolution never could take place?..YES!

The law of increasing entropy is an impenetrable barrier which no evolutionary mechanism yet suggested has ever been able to overcome. Evolution and entropy are opposing and mutually exclusive concepts. If the entropy principle is really a universal law, then evolution must be impossible.
The very terms themselves express contradictory concepts. The word "evolution" is of course derived from a Latin word meaning "out-rolling". The picture is of an outward-progressing spiral,

evolution doesnt mean progress..it is a variation

an unrolling from an infinitesimal beginning through ever broadening circles, until finally all reality is embraced within.

what is that supposed to mean?

Thus, in one instance, "all observed systems ... go from order to disorder," and in the other, "the whole of reality ... gives rise to an increasingly high level of organization in its products." It seems obvious that either evolution or entropy has been vastly over-rated or else that something is wrong with the English language.

no, it doesnt..it just shows that morris doesnt understand either..what is the order that the world is supposedly going to?..what about snowflakes?..crystals?..do they not get more complex?

The entropy principle, however, is nothing less than the Second Law of Thermodynamics

the second law of thermodynamics doesnt make evolution impossible

There is a universal process of change, and it is a directional change, but it is not an upward change.

evolution is not an upward change..it is a variation

Thus, the Second Law proves, as certainly as science can prove anything whatever, that the universe had a beginning. Similarly, the First Law shows that the universe could not have begun itself.

so something had to have begun it?..so what?..irrelevant to evolution..if you want to argue theism vs. atheism, do that..if you want to argue evolution vs. no-evolution, then do that..they are separate arguments..evolution doesnt mean no god..and no god doesnt mean evolution(although i dont know how else life would have become diverse)

what began the creator of the universe, anyway?..how can you say the universe must have had a creator, but then turn around and say “the creator has been there forever”?..adding a creator just adds another problem, larger than the one the creator is supposed to answer

The total quantity of energy in the universe is a constant, but the quantity of available energy is decreasing.

in a closed system..the earth is NOT a closed system as long as the sun is burning

Therefore, as we go backward in time, the available energy would have been progressively greater until, finally, we would reach the beginning point, where available energy equaled total energy. Time could go back no further than this. At this point both energy and time must have come into existence. Since energy could not create itself,

he doesnt know that..as far as we know, energy could be creating himself

the most scientific and logical conclusion to which we could possibly come is that: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."

science deals with natural events, not supernatural events..it isnt scientific..and if thats the answer, then the question becomes “how did god get created?”..you seriously think that energy cant create itself, but the same problem isnt there for your god?..wheres the consistency?

The evolutionist will not accept this conclusion, however.

evolution has nothing to do with a god..there are plenty of people that believe in god and accept evolution and one of the theories of the mechanism of evolution(which is what “gradualists” argue “punctuationists” over..they dont argue over whether evolution happens, they argue over how evolution happens..some scientists do disagree with darwin over how it happened)..here are the five most popular views of how the species got diverse:
1..evolution alone with either no god or a non-interfering god)
2..evolution with a god starting things off
3..evolution with a god that tinkers with things on the way
4..young-earth biblical creationism with the earth being created 6000 years ago in six days, with a world-wide flood occuring 4000 years ago
5..old-earth creationism with creations occuring over millions of years

numbers 1, 2 and 3 fit the fossil record
number 4 is falsified by the fossil record because the order is different than that of genesis, and fossils found over millions of years, rather than 6000 years
number 5 has trouble because of the fossil record..with god creating things first that fit well with evolution, as if the god actually wanted people to think evolution occured

creation of separate kinds(4 and 5) appear to be extremely unlikely-to-impossible

He hypothesizes that either: (1) some natural law canceling out the Second Law prevailed far back in time, or (2) some. natural law canceling out the Second Law prevails far out in space.

no..what he says is “the second law of thermodynamics” affects evolution as much as it does a human going from fertilized egg-to-adult

When he makes such assumptions, however, he is denying his own theory, which says that all things can be explained in terms of presently observable laws and processes. He is really resorting to creationism, but refuses to acknowledge a Creator.

no, he isnt because morris doesnt understand evolution and he doesnt understand the second law

"How does a real biological process, which goes from order to disorder, result in evolution. which goes from disorder to order?"

how does evolution going from disorder to order?

Especially is such a question vital, when we are thinking of evolution as a growth process on the grand scale from atom to Adam and from particle to people.

evolution as morris argues against is a variation..not a betterment..morris doesnt understand it..and thats what racists who attempt to justify their racism by evolution dont understand..(and dont go saying:”evolution causes racism” because racism was around well before 1859..also remember that the last states to have segregation happened to be in the bible belt)..it should be made clear to every single person that evolution is a variation, not a betterment

This represents in absolutely gigantic increase in order and complexity, and is clearly out of place altogether in the context of the Second Law.

how does evolution make a gigantic increase in order?..how does evolution make a gigantic increase in complexity?

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