Tag: Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, aeons, assumptions, Bars-Steinhardt-Turok model, black holes, Boltzmann brain, bouncing cosmologies, concentric low-variance circles, conformal cyclic cosmology, consciousness, cosmic microwave background, cyclic cosmologies, dark matter, de Sitter horizon entropy, disorder, Douglas Scott, Edward Tryon, entropy, erebon, fine-tuning, gravitational wave epoch, Hawking radiation, intelligent cause, Mount Everest, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Roger Penrose, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Tod equations, trilemma, universe, Weyl Curvature Hypothesis}

Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

_{Bruce Gordon
June 26, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

19}

Penrose was right, then, that fashion, faith, and fantasy have led much of modern cosmology astray. He was more right than he knew. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 16, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, apology, Applied Mathematics Letters, compensation argument, errors, humans, humor, intelligent design, Kirk Sewell, laymen, life, materialists, mathematics, natural causes, peer-reviewed literature, Physics Essays, Rick Romager, sarcasm, Science and Culture Today, scientific rigor, Second Law of Thermodynamics, YouTube videos}

A Note on the “Compensation” Argument

_{Granville Sewell
June 16, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

3}

This debate is not really too complicated for the layman to understand, though it seems to be too simple for many scientists. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Abhay Ashtekar, Aron Wall, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, bounce, conformal cyclic cosmology, cosmic aeons, cosmic inflation, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, entropy, flatness problem, geodesics, gravity, horizon problem, Kinney-Stein proof, Kinney-Stein result, loop quantum cosmology, Martin Bojowald, mechanism, Mithani-Vilenkin instability, Mithani-Vilenkin instability proof, Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, quantum effects, quantum singularity theorem, quantum-geometric bounce, Roger Penrose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, singularity theorems, Tolman entropy problem, universe}

Past-Eternal Loop Quantum Cosmology Gets the Bounce

_{Bruce Gordon
May 28, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

15}

Oscillating universes have been discussed in philosophy from time immemorial and in mathematical cosmology for over one hundred years. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Big Bang, consciousness, creator, cryogenics, David Klinghoffer, design, experiences, identity, individualism, individuality, infinite possibilities, information theory, intelligence, intelligent design, life, materialistic universe, natural processes, naturalism, neuroscience, non-life, Origins and Destiny, plat's revenge, Robert Gange, Second Law of Thermodynamics, ultimate reality}

Origins, Destiny, and Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
February 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Apart from an intelligent designer, “…we are forced to believe that nucleic acids eventually acquire awareness of their own existence when they are mixed.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, BIO-Complexity, civilization, computers, Darwinists, disorder, earth, encyclopedias, entropy, equations, evolution, information, intelligence, intelligent design, iPhones, machines, order, physics, probability, Science and Culture Today, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar energy, sun, tautology, tornado}

A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

_{Granville Sewell
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

6}

The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 21, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, artificial inteligence, Conservation of Information, ID the Future, information, intelligence, Law of Conservation of Information, law of formation, Leon Brillouin, machines, mathematicians, nature, order, perpetual motion machines, philosophers, physical systems, reductionist biology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, William Dembski}

Why Intelligence Is Necessary to Explain Nature’s Functional Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 21, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

The law of conservation of information shows that intelligence is a necessary requirement for the complex functional information found in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 13, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canceled Science, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, Eric Hedin, faith and science, free will, human evil, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, natural evil, podcast, rational thought, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 13, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

Says Dr. Hedin, "We live in a world where the second law of thermodynamics applies not just to stars and mountainsides but also to our own bodies.” Read More ›

Close-up horse eye, expressive gaze. Possible use Animal portrait, nature, wildlife

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
November 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, central dogma, Darwinian evolution, entropy, irreversibility, Jacques Monod, materialism, molecular biology, mutations, natural causes, natural selection, paleontologists, physical causes, primates, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sexuality}

Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Evolutionism is really more of a paradigm or methodology than a theory. For its supporters, the important thing is that it was due to natural causes. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 1, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, Assembly Theory, BIO-Complexity, Charles Darwin, Conservation of Information, disorder, entropy, information, living things, monographs, order, Paul Davies, perpetual motion machines, physical systems, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, shmoo, Stuart Kauffman, thermal equilibrium, work}

Nature’s Missing Law of Information

_{William A. Dembski
October 1, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information is not just an idea or concept that sits blithely in a world of mathematical abstraction. Read More ›