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From: alanf@netcom.com (alan filipski)
Subject: Re: Creation VS Evolution Survey Now Complete
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In article <4sgehr$1hg@atlas.xylogics.com> jking@alnitak.xylogics.com (Jack King) writes:
-Kevin D. Quitt (kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
-
-: No, he wasn't right.  If the second law debunks evolution, then it also
-: debunks the growth of a single cell into a human being.  You can't allow one
-: without the other.
-
-Poor analogy.  

It's not an analogy, it is a statement about misunderstanding the 2LT.

-The cell has a very well organized mechanism which is
-"designed" to perform a task.  Negative entropy is the result.  

It sounds like you are agreeing with him.  Do you believe
that the growth of a cell into a human adult violates
2LT because the cell's "design" generates "negative entropy"?

2LT has no exceptions for "designed" things.


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