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Author Topic:   two important questions for Servant
Dan Carroll
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Message 58 of 152 (100981)
04-19-2004 4:57 PM
Reply to: Message 56 by steppjr
04-19-2004 4:47 PM


I'll leave others to handle the full refutation of this, but do me a solid here. Go outside. Look up. Right up, at that big thumping bright yellow ball in the sky.
The system isn't left on its own. Energy is constantly being pumped into the system.

"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"
-Holly

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Dan Carroll
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Message 64 of 152 (100993)
04-19-2004 6:02 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by steppjr
04-19-2004 5:16 PM


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That’s a phase change and different from what I am talking about
How is it different? You said it was a closed system. (It would have to be for the 2nd Law to apply.) It's not.

"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"
-Holly

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