17 Evidences against evolut 4
PART 4
17 EVIDENCES AGAINST EVOLUTION
6. SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
The second law of thermodynamics states that although the total amount of energy remains constant, the amount of usable energy is constantly decreasing. This law can be seen in most everything. Where work is done, energy is expelled. That energy can never again be used. As usable energy decreases, decay increases. Herein lies the problem for evolution. If the natural trend is toward degeneration, then evolution is impossible, for it demands the betterment of organisms through mutation.
Some try to sidestep this law by saying that it applies only to closed environments. They say the earth is an open environment, collecting energy from the sun. However, Dr. Duane Gish has put forth four conditions that must be met in order for complexity to be generated in an environment.
- The system must be an open system.
- An adequate external energy force must be available.
- The system must possess energy conversion mechanisms.
- A control mechanism must exist within the system for directing, maintaining and replicating these energy conversion mechanisms.
The second law clearly presents another insurmountable barrier to evolutionary idealism.
7. VESTIGIAL ORGANS
Vestigial organs are supposed organs in the body which are useless, left over from evolutionary development. The following arguments for vestigial organs are based on those taken from the “Bible Science Newsletter,” August 1989, p. 16.
- Just because we don’t yet know the role of an organ does not mean it is useless and left over from previous stages of evolution.
- This view is plain false. In the 1800’s, evolutionists listed 180 vestigial organs in the human body. The functions for all have now been found. Some of these were the pituitary gland (oversees skeletal growth), the thymus (an endocrine gland), the pineal gland (affects the development of the sex glands), the tonsils, and appendix (both now known to fight disease.)
- The fact that an organ must sometimes be removed does not make it vestigial.
- The fact that one can live without an organ (appendix, tonsils) does not make it vestigial. You can survive without an arm or a kidney but these are not considered vestigial.
- Organs are not vestigial based upon your need or use of them.
- According to evolution, if an organ has lost its value, it should, over time, vanish completely. There has been enough time to lose these “vestigial” organs, but we still have them.
- If organs do become useless, this would back up the second law of thermodynamics and the degenerative process, not evolution, which requires adaptation of organs for new purposes.
- Vestigial organs prove loss, not evolutionary progression. Evolution theory requires new organs forming for useful purposes, not “old ones” dying out.
- Evolutionists have, for the most part, given up the argument over vestigial organs.