Big
Bang Or Creation?
David Layzer, of Harvard, in
attempting to deal with this problem, has
first redefined "times'
arrow" (a term coined for the Second Law by Sir
Arthur Eddiington) in terms
of two arrows, one pointing up and one pointing
down.
The processes that define
the historical and the thermodynamic
arrows of time generate
information and entrophy, respectively.
-Layzer,
By the "historical
arrow", Layzer means the evolutionary process, which
presumably gernerates a
higher and higher degree of "information" (or
"order" or "complexity")
in the world. This can only be done at the cost of
increasing entropy.
Thus a gain of information
is always compensated for by an equal
loss of entropy. - David
Layzer
However, the "thermodynamic
arrow" defines entropy as always increasing.
Layzer, in effect, has
restated the problem, but he hasn't solved it. That
is, just HOW is this
increasing information genreated at the cost of a loss
of entropy?!! WHAT is the
code that directs it and and WHERE is the mechanis
that activates it??!!
Without these, the naturally increasing entropy
simply precludes an increase
of information. The empty statment that "the
earth is an open system"
is no answer.
A number of other
evolutionists (Weisskopf, Dickerson, Eigen, et al) have
also tried to deal with this
subject. They at least have acknowledged that
the entropy problem requires
more than the usual "open system" cliche, but
they are all as unable to
solve the problem as Prigogine, Layzer, and
Wicken have been.
Sonntag and Van Wylen in
their widely used two-volume text-book, say:
....the authors see the
second law of thermodynamics as man's
description of the prior and
continuing work of a creator, who also holds
the answer to the future
destiny of man and the universe. (Vol.1)
The present laws of science
point directly to the fact of Creation and
profoundly conflict with the
humanist philosophy of a continuing
naturalistic evolution.
