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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: SOR #2, an obvious point everybody seems to have missed.
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 13:31:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 13:31:07 1984
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> Miller admits that evolving life is not "an isolated system, free of
> external influence".  At this point, Miller's argument CEASES TO BE
> BASED ON THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS, since the second law of
> thermodynamics only describes the behaviour of isolated systems free
> of external influences.
> 
> This didn't stop him from going on with his argument, and *claiming* at
> the end of his article that thermodynamics supports creationism.  Pfui.
> 
> 	David Canzi
> 
> "...and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words." Ecclesiastes 5:3

The fact that a creationist argument is shown to be folly does not stop him
from using the argument at a later date, in the hope that the reader will
have forgotten that the argument was already shown to be folly.  This
particular wrong argument, and the correct reply to it, is about 60 years
old.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Madam, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the
question whether the white race will survive."  -Leonid Breshnev, speaking
to Margaret Thatcher.