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.

In a refridgerator....the heat still flows from an area of high heat to
one of low heat. There is nothing backwards about it.

>
> 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, 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, 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, according to the second law, since
> heat energy flows from the Sun (through radiation),
> being at a greater temperature, to the constituent
> matter of Earth and not the other way around.

You really have no idea what was meant by the previous paragraph....do
you.

>
> Put simply, sandcastles do not arise *spontaneously*.

Simply put....cold things can't make hot things hotter....ice can't
heat up your coffee....that is what was meant by the previous
paragraph.

The rest of what you stated flowed from your complete misunderstanding
of thermodynamics.

>
> Something or some entity has to input the mechanical
> work to raise it up. It will never come into
> existence just because the Sun radiates (or from any
> other thermal energy source) upon the sand on seashore.
> The Sun never can directly input mechanical energy
> to organize a sandcastle, for it is necessarily a
> part of the closed system -- the whole system being
> isolated from or being independent of "any external
> agency". A 'closed system' is a system that
> functions independent of its environment. The Sun is
> not an "external agency", since it cannot input
> mechanical energy on its own to organize anything.
> Thus, it is clear that your closed system argument is
> sophistry. A *solar* powered machine/robot designed
> to build a sandcastle or a little boy in his
> swimming trunk is an "external agency", for neither
> is a part of "the unaided action of natural processes".
> Using the current thermodynamic terminology, either one
> is "external" to the *spontaneous* process of the
> Sun shining upon seashore.
>
> Stating the Second Law statistically (for James Clerk
> Maxwell proved more than a century ago that the
> Second Law is statistical in nature, and now
> thermodynamics is also called statistical mechanics),
> a sandcastle, as an example, arising *spontaneously*
> is improbable. That is a technical way of saying that
> it is impossible, no matter how much time passes.
>
> Art Bulla (www.artbulla.com) has provided the
> statistical calculation for the probability of
> just one protein molecule arising *spontaneously*.
> It is found in his epistle, published in
> "The Revelations of Jesus Christ", sec. 14.
> (Start with 14:44.) It is found that it is
> statistically improbable, or in other words,
> it is impossible for just one protein molecule
> of 100 amino acids in length to arise *spontaneously*
> (i.e. in a closed system, no "external agency"
> involved in protein formation).
>
> There is no such thing as a perpetual
> motion machine, which is another equivalent way
> of stating the Second Law. Rudolf Clausius's concept
> of entropy has furthered our mathematical
> comprehension of this fundamental, universal truth.
>
> In conclusion, the theories of Evolution are a pack
> of lies, a dogmatic false religion designed to
> destroy civilization by blinding and retarding
> the minds of men.
>
> Though it began with studies of the heat engine,
> the laws of thermodynamics have proven to be
> universally applicable, insofar as the *coarse*
> material world is concerned. Biochemists employ
> the principles of thermodynamics all the time.
> Gibbs free energy, etc. They know by experience.
> And more obviously, so do mechanical engineers.
>
> Rong Kim
> http://www.artbulla.com
>
> The Revelations of Jesus Christ:
> http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-28287-3
>
> ===
>
> Another prophecy of Art Bulla the One Mighty and Strong,
> who has successfully demonstrated the fallacy of the
> Evolutionary religion:
>
> 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the
> glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
> 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
> and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall
> arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
> (Old Testament | Isaiah 60:1 - 2)
>
> --
>
> "I believe, with the Westminster Divines and their
> predecessors ad Infinitum, that 'Man's chief end
> is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever'."
> - James Clerk Maxwell.
>
> --

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