Tag: Second law of thermodynamics

• Evolution and the second law of thermodynamics

  When I wrote my first piece about Roger Penrose‘s Cycles of Time – one of the links offered to me was to a Christian fundamentalist blogger who claimed that the second law of thermodynamics showed evolution could not have taken place: E. Evolution contradicts the Second law of Thermodynamics In the Theory of Evolution it…

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 1, 2011

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  Biogenesis, Christian fundamentalism, creationism, Earth, Entropy, Evolution, fundamentalism, Heat, intelligent design, Roger Penrose, Second law of thermodynamics, Spontaneous Generation, Sun

• The second law of thermodynamics and the history of the universe

  I had to go on quite a long plane journey yesterday and I bought a book to read – Roger Penrose‘s work on cosmology: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe I bought it on spec – it was on the popular science shelves: somewhere I usually avoid at least for the…

  Adrian McMenamin

  September 30, 2011

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  Big Bang, Boltzmann, Cosmology, Entropy, reformation, religion, Roger Penrose, Second law of thermodynamics, steady state cosmology, Universe