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    What is Evolution?

    Right, I'll continue most of my points later. I just wanted to highlight the main part I wish to hear. What is your main issue with evolution, what is your entire argument about! I have asked you this the last 4/5 posts in a row and you have ignored them all.
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    What is Evolution?

    Yet again you haven't told me wat your issues are, I know there are two of them so can I make my millionth request for you to clarify this point!!! Secondly; with the second law applying to open systems there can be independant pockets within those open systems where the second law does not...
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    What is Evolution?

    Right, in this post you yet again failed to address my main issue. Which was that you still haven't clarified what your problem is with evolution. Now to address the point you brought up, I am saying that every single one of the textbooks I have read and all of the university professors with...
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    What is Evolution?

    We already established this, then I asked you to put a brief summary of what your problems are. It's no use continueing to tell me that you have problems without pointing out what they are. No it isn't, I have never found a widely used scientific textbook which states that the second law...
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    What is Evolution?

    Right, we're slowly getting somewhere, we've now established what you didn't mean. Now can you (as I've asked several times) re-clarify what your complaint is. I don't really want to read through 6 pages of garbled posts again to try to establish what you were originally trying to put across...
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    What is Evolution?

    As far as I was aware, your point was that evolution is a process in which new information is acquired which therefore increases complexity and breaches the second law of thermodynamics. I then was trying to show you how the second law of dynamics has not been breached. If this isn't your...
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    What is Evolution?

    Let's start at the top and do things properly I wasn't really talking about my understanding of the subject and don't really think this bit makes sense, if you could clarify what it means that'd be great. Entropy still has some relevence in open systems, but you can't say that it will...
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    What is Evolution?

    I still don't see how that is relevant to your argument, I'll try to clarify what I was saying. Nothing we look at with regards to evolution was a closed system, unless we consider the entire known universe as our boundries. Therefore I am saying that any evolutionary process cannot have the...
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    What is Evolution?

    What energy is running down? The energy of the entire universe or the system you are looking at?
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    What is Evolution?

    (sorry it took so long for me to reply, my computer is currently having a bit of a fit and is sporadically freezing on me)
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    What is Evolution?

    Right, if we cut this down to your original point and my original answer. Just to clarify, you believe that if we define our system without boundries to energy and matter transfer you still believe that entropy must increase?
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    What is Evolution?

    Can I ask what your basis is in the fields of Biology and Physics? You refer to your "science friend" on occasion and then mention higher level thermodynamic concepts, I don't ask this to try to turn this into an argument over who has the most background knowlege in the subject but to find out...
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    What is Evolution?

    This problem you brought up was a matter of the application of the second law of thermodynamics in biological evolution, I think this is more scientifically rooted than philosiphically. seeing as we are the only people actively contributing, would you like to move this to PMs?
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    What is Evolution?

    As I said, please avoid linking huge internet pages that will take me an hour to read and digest, if you want to make a point, please make it in a more time-friendly fashion.
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    What is Evolution?

    I was referencing my academics on the subject of biology, I have not once in this articled begun to speculate about the existence of god. It is much better if the matter of "whether or not evolution is a verifiable process" to the scientists. I have no real idea why you started a conversation on...
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