creationism v. entropy

[Hershom K. Bazerman]

As a whole, the creationists are just the type of idiots that much of 
_GR_ targets. I remember reading in a creationist textbook that evolution 
must be wrong because natural laws aren't constantly striving to "improve 
themselves" and become "better" natural laws, and because stars aren't 
evolving to become "super-stars" much as they claim evolution tries to 
tell us that men are evolving into Neizche's "ubermench" (sorry about the 
spelling). As has been pointed out many times before, this type of 
arbitrary application of scientific principles was criticized more than 
once by Pynchon.

--Gershom K. Bazerman <bazerman at cs.ucsb.edu>
On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Robert Bruno wrote:

> While on the topic of entropy, I must relate this argument I had with a 
> Born again Christian regarding the creation of life from a 
> chaotic bowl of heated soup, which he says goes directly *against* the
> 2nd law of thermodynamics:  therefore, this primordial evolutionism could 
> not have occured, thus validating his belief in creationism as stated in 
> the Bible.  His theory, *not* mine.  Just thought it was interesting...
> 
> my 2 cents
> Rob
>