Thermodynamics and Order Questions and Answers

What are the laws of thermodynamics and how do they relate to the creation/evolution debate?

• The Second Law of Thermodynamics (or the Law of Entropy): Answers to Critics (Semi-Technical; available in Spanish)
• Evolution, Creation & Thermodynamics
• Can Water Flow Uphill?
• Second Law of Thermodynamics — Does this basic law of nature prevent Evolution? (Christian Answers Network)
• The Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, online chapters (off-site)
  • Chapter 7 Thermodynamics of Living Systems
  • Chapter 8 Thermodynamics and the Origin of life
  • Chapter 9 Specifying How Work is to be Done

How do creationists respond to evolutionists’ counter-arguments, e.g. open systems and crystals?

• Fridges and Hot Air
• Order or Chaos?
• Thermodynamics vs Evolutionism True Origins site (Semi-Technical)
• Why bother feeding your children?
• Some thermodynamics criticisms (by anti-creationist science writer Jonathan Sherwood) — and answers:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2

Related articles

• Should creationists accept quantum mechanics?
• Thermodynamics and evolution

• Countering the Critics Q&A
• Origin of Life Q&A

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