| LIE #8 |
CREATIONIST: "The belief that the atoms of a "Big Bang" eventually produced people ALL BY THEMSELVES (that is, without any intelligent guidance) is contrary to the well-proven Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the fundamentals of Information Theory. The universe is known to be "running down" yet evolution postulates it is "building up". Atoms to people evolution is much more a "religious belief" than a scientific fact. "
- Creation Science Web Page
FACT: The above statement is a lie by distortion. The above statement deliberately and completely distorts the relationship between the Second Law of Thermodynamics and life as understood by evolutionists. Within an organism, energy can be concentrated and organization be increased by expending energy, this is called negentropy. Thus, within an organism and thus within a population of organisms, there is a "building up," even though the entire ecosystem as a whole is "running down." Organisms and populations "build up" at the expense of the environment, therefore there is no contradiction in this aspect of evolutionary theory. The idea that evolution is a "religious belief" is an absurdity, and exists only in the fantasies of biased Creationists.