DarwinisM and thermodynamics
Darwinism is the only natural process that claims to move spontaneously toward greater organization and complexity. The second law of thermodynamics says that all processes without exception tend toward disorder. Darwinism and thermodynamics are therefore diametrically opposed.
Darwinists say that the universe is a closed system. No information can reach their universe from such outside sources as Divine intelligence. In any closed system the entropy always increases, or at best holds steady, but it never declines. Shannon established that information is the negative of entropy. Therefore, in the closed universe of the Darwinists, information always decreases, or at best remains constant for a time, but it never increases. The scientific information we know now did not exist when the universe was filled with hot subatomic particles and cosmic rays. At that time, soon after the beginning of the universe, the information of the genetic code did not exist, either. Random processes do not create information even when there is natural selection. How did present, highly specific information enter the universe of the Darwinists?
Information is just as rigorously subject to the laws of physics as entropy. The law of non-decreasing entropy has no known exceptions. Likewise there are no known exceptions to the law of non-increasing information. Therefore there is no way that the information coded in the genome of living organisms could ever have arisen spontaneously, by random action or any other mechanism, even with the filter of natural selection working all the time. Darwinism contradicts the most widely applicable and most firmly established law of physics, the second law of thermodynamics.
Just before 1900 the laws of physics seemed quite clear. Michelson said that the only work remaining to physicists was just to measure physical constants with greater and greater precision. Then, in 1905, relativity and quantum mechanics had their beginnings. Physicists put these theories forward in response to some rather small discrepancies between classical theories and some new experimental results. The physicists did the right thing. When they found discrepancies between theory and experiment, they changed their theories until they agreed with all the experiments.
Darwinists constantly change their theories, but they seem unable to do experiments that confirm some hypotheses and disprove others. Why is this? Scientists propose, design, and do experiments to discriminate among various hypotheses. If there is only one accepted hypothesis in a particular branch of knowledge and the people working on it will not entertain alternative ideas, they will never gather evidence that could modify their views. Such people are simply repeating the medieval error of holding allegiance to a dogma or an old authority. Clearing away the claptrap of outworn conjectures is the first step toward advancing new, testable, workable theories.
Many Darwinists try to combat what they perceive as the dogmas of others by clinging to and advancing their own dogmas. Who can convince people to be scientific by being dogmatic? Discerning people know that one error will not destroy another.
Darwinism is at variance with information theory and the second law of thermodynamics. Junking Darwinism will lead on to many great scientific discoveries.
Darwinists say that the universe is a closed system. No information can reach their universe from such outside sources as Divine intelligence. In any closed system the entropy always increases, or at best holds steady, but it never declines. Shannon established that information is the negative of entropy. Therefore, in the closed universe of the Darwinists, information always decreases, or at best remains constant for a time, but it never increases. The scientific information we know now did not exist when the universe was filled with hot subatomic particles and cosmic rays. At that time, soon after the beginning of the universe, the information of the genetic code did not exist, either. Random processes do not create information even when there is natural selection. How did present, highly specific information enter the universe of the Darwinists?
Information is just as rigorously subject to the laws of physics as entropy. The law of non-decreasing entropy has no known exceptions. Likewise there are no known exceptions to the law of non-increasing information. Therefore there is no way that the information coded in the genome of living organisms could ever have arisen spontaneously, by random action or any other mechanism, even with the filter of natural selection working all the time. Darwinism contradicts the most widely applicable and most firmly established law of physics, the second law of thermodynamics.
Just before 1900 the laws of physics seemed quite clear. Michelson said that the only work remaining to physicists was just to measure physical constants with greater and greater precision. Then, in 1905, relativity and quantum mechanics had their beginnings. Physicists put these theories forward in response to some rather small discrepancies between classical theories and some new experimental results. The physicists did the right thing. When they found discrepancies between theory and experiment, they changed their theories until they agreed with all the experiments.
Darwinists constantly change their theories, but they seem unable to do experiments that confirm some hypotheses and disprove others. Why is this? Scientists propose, design, and do experiments to discriminate among various hypotheses. If there is only one accepted hypothesis in a particular branch of knowledge and the people working on it will not entertain alternative ideas, they will never gather evidence that could modify their views. Such people are simply repeating the medieval error of holding allegiance to a dogma or an old authority. Clearing away the claptrap of outworn conjectures is the first step toward advancing new, testable, workable theories.
Many Darwinists try to combat what they perceive as the dogmas of others by clinging to and advancing their own dogmas. Who can convince people to be scientific by being dogmatic? Discerning people know that one error will not destroy another.
Darwinism is at variance with information theory and the second law of thermodynamics. Junking Darwinism will lead on to many great scientific discoveries.
