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Claim CF001: The second law of thermodynamics prohibits evolution
Claim CF001.1: Systems left to themselves invariably tend toward disorder
Claim CF001.2: The second law of thermodynamics, and the trend to disorder, is universal
Claim CF001.3: Instructions are necessary to produce order
Claim CF001.4: The second law is about organized complexity, not entropy
Claim CF001.5: Evolution needs an energy conversion mechanism to utilize energy
Claim CF002: Complexity does not come from simplicity
Claim CF002.1: Tornadoes in junkyards do not build things
Claim CF003: How could information, such as in DNA, assemble itself?
Claim CF005: 2nd law of thermodynamics applies to information theory
Claim CF101: The universe's energy cannot come from nothing
Claim CH320: Life is deteriorating
Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.
Science and Earth History: The Evolution / Creation Controversy
Book by Arthur N. Strahler. Contains an outstandingly good chapter on thermodynamics and creationist claims about thermodynamics, abiogenesis, and evolution.
Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.
Creationist Misunderstanding, Misrepresentation, and Misuse of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Article by Stanley Freske in Creation/Evolution Journal on the website of the National Center for Science Education. References are not showing in this version but the full issue in which this article appears is available in PDF format.
Biological Evolution and the Second Law
Article by William Thwaites and Frank Aubrey in Creation/Evolution Journal on the website of the National Center for Science Education. The full issue in which this article appears is available in PDF format.
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Number 9 in the list in this Scientific American article gives a brief response.
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