No Intelligence Allowed IV

Wed, 13 Feb 2008

Re:#203 graphicsully said: "Let us speculate that the theory of evolution is brought to an end or found to be unproven. Maybe through the second law of thermodynamics with enthropy, but none the less, debunked."

Finally, someone with whom to agree! Debunking is indeed the goal. Obviously, this primed free energy function as defined by Dr. Josiah Willard Gibbs of Yale and later slightly modified by Dr. Andrew Gibbs while he remained living into the last century (only Josiah Gibbs is usually given the credit) leads to a clear and fairly devastating disproof of evolution through the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

For those of you who are not well acquainted with the niceties of ID or with the hard realities of thermodynamics, this primed Gibbs Free Energy of an isoclysmic system (as given by K. Ludwig, L. Mayer, X. Austerlitz, and P. Olsen in 1885 in the Zeitschrift fuer Phys. der re. Naturfor., Vol. 10, No. 7, pgs. 23-24) that is quasi-statically bound to an adiabat such as a cell or a human body is while it is still alive is the entropy plus the enthalpy divided by a temperature-dependent scaling factor - often shortened to Enthrapy - please watch your spelling graphicsully. (It was a pleasant surprise, though, to see that someone here knows of this thermodynamic function!) It has its origin in a perfect differential and remains invariant under an arbitrary Legendre transformation. Case closed! Not only is the viability of evolution disproved, but the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics is necessarily vitiated. (see Turner, L.A., Am. Jour. Phys., Vol. 29, pgs. 71-76 for the standard reference.)

Why must there be so many idiots in the world? I am sure that you must think that! Please be civil and just follow the derivations to their logical conclusions and do not assume all ID'ers are unmitigated fools who have nothing to offer but sophisms and invalid arguments. Only fair and balanced consideration of thought will lead us out of the wilderness. The Truth will be known even if it takes 1000 years.

If this disproof were well-known in the general population through publication in major newspapers - like the New York Times for instance - one wonders how we can try to understand the new times effect on man just as graphicsully does propose. All that can be hoped for is for this to reach a wider audience and for the removal of the suppression of academic ideas.

Until now, I have always heaped praise exclusively on Ben Stein, but the producers of this movie do deserve a full measure of credit also. Thank you, Messieurs, and may God bless you.


Sincerely,

Mark E. Witt

(Provisional Founding Council Member)
Intelligent Design,
Institute of Theory
New Haven, CT