"Life Explains Life"? Challenge to Yale Evolutionist Dr. Novella on Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics – Novella: Creationists have then attempted to counter this by saying that simply providing energy from the sun is not sufficient, you need to also have a mechanism by which that energy is actively used to decrease entropy. I and others have then pointed out that there is such a mechanism. The sun does not just heat the Earth. Life uses solar energy to create food, grow, do work, reproduce and, in short, locally decrease its entropy. We are debating the explanation for the fact that life gives rise to low entropy. Therefore, Novella cannot invoke life as the explanation, because he is invoking the very thing we are trying to explain. The question is: how is it that life can create low entropy? So here is my question for Dr. Novella: By your understanding of evolution, what explanation accounts for low entropy in living things? If you believe that there are explanations for low entropy other than law-likeness or mind-likeness, please provide them. The assertion that "life uses energy to make low entropy" or "life explains life" is not an explanation, but an admission that you have no explanation. evolutionnews.org/2013/09/life_explains_l076791.html#sthash.1nuscUEX.dpuf
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 01:31:18 +0000
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