Re: Sandcstles Do Not Arise Spontaneously: A Thermodynamics-Based Refutation of Evolution


Rong Kim wrote:
> Thermodynamics originated from studies of the
> Carnot cycle (ideal heat engine), but it has
> turned out to be a general principle encompassing
> all of *known* (coarse matter) universe, not only
> concerning the heat engine and the refrigerator,
> which is a heat engine run backwards.
>
> Specifically, the second law of thermodynamics
> has never been proven to be incorrect in human
> empiricism. This is not an example of a
> mathematical proof, but a perfect example
> of induction. The Sun or any other star in
> Nature is also a part of "the unaided action
> of natural processes" that Professor Clerk Maxwell
> eloquently wrote about. We now call them
> *spontaneous* processes. Note the way he states
> the Second Law in very general terms,
> not specifically about the heat engine:
>
> "Admitting heat to be a form of energy, the
> second law asserts that it is impossible,
> by the unaided action of natural processes,
> to transform any part of the heat of a body
> into mechanical work, except by allowing heat
> to pass from that body into another at a
> lower temperature. Clausius, who first stated
> the principle of Carnot in a manner consistent
> with the true theory of heat, expresses this
> law as follows: - It is impossible for a
> self-acting machine, unaided by any external
> agency,

Unaided by energy/matter flux from outside the machine. Agency is a
somewhat loaded term, and I doubt what Kelvin meant by "agency" is what
you think it means.

to convey heat from one body to another
> at a higher temperature. Thomson gives it a
> slightly different form: - It is impossible,
> by means of inanimate material agency,

It is impossible for such a thing to happen in an isolated enclosure
at thermodynamic equilibrium. Relax any of those conditions, all bets
are off.



to derive
> mechanical effect from any portion of matter by
> cooling it below the temperature of the coldest
> of the surrounding objects."
> - James Clerk Maxwell ("Theory of Heat", 1871)
>
> To transform any part of the heat of the
> constituent matter into moving itself
> (mechanical work) in such a fashion as for
> that matter to be organized into the planet Earth
> is impossible,

Ever hear of gravity?

At what makes you think the Earth is at thermodynamic equilibrium?

<rest of gibberish snipped>

You can't quote Maxwell, Thompson or Gibbs like scripture.

You see, you do need to know what you're talking about.

Qutoing something does not == understanding it.

Stuart

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