Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Creationist love to use the Second Law of Thermodynamics as part of their propaganda. They say things like:
The proven scientific Law called The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that "all processes left to themselves go to a greater state of disorder, disarrangement, and less complexity" so this means that order cannot come from disorder thus evolution could have never started from a single cell.
The first thing that I noticed was that the creationist took an example from the Second Law of Thermodynamics that was showing the impossibility of a perpetual motion machine, and used it against evolution. They also left out an explanation of the thermodynamic probablity of irreversability and how it works in the law, my guess as for a reason for the "forgetting" of that is because it would show that the Second Law of Thermodynamics does not rule out evolution
Thermodynamic probability of irreversability is not fixed, as the creationist would make you think. This probabily changes according to their environment, which is the key to seeing why the creationist is wrong.
A thermodynamic probability being fixed would make the following statements true:
Evolution from a single cell is impossible
Ice can never melt
If you jump in the air, you will never return to earth
As you know, these are not true, according to thermodynamics probablity of irreversability, if you drop the temperature of water down to -5C it will freeze. If you keep it at that temperature it will never melt. Does this mean Ice cannot melt? Nope, that is where this probability comes in. It states that without an outside change, like environmental temperature changes, a chemical change, etc. Ice will never melt, but if the temperature goes up, the Ice melts.
This means that the Second Law disproves Evolution as much as the Law of Gravity makes jumping impossible.