Hovindism #4 Entropy

Part 4 in our new weekly series dissecting the errors made by Creation Science Evangelism's Kent Hovind in his misguided attacks on biological science.

References:
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7) Freemsn S, Herron JC. 2007. Evolutionary Analysis, 4th ed. Benjamin Cummings.

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[toobsucker]

Dodo can you tell us what would happen to a RNA molecule (without the aid of a ribozyme engineer) if it was left completely unto its self?

If you need the half lives of Cytosine, Adenine, Cyanoacetaldehyde, Cyanoacetylene, Guanine & Uracil to help you in your equation ill be happy to send you the information

[faircompetition1]

Interesting fail on the claim only plants harness the suns energy - what does he think powers the weather and ocean currents? How about the water cycle? Guess that's what happens when you ignore reality and try to twist the truth to fit what you already decided without evidence.

[tuseroni]

@herb420ish "if voting actually made a difference they'd make it illegal"

[bobdolesrevenge]

Kent Hovind: Because nothing says "Christian values" quite like joking about atrocities and thinly veiled racism.

[herb420ish]

Lol@the voting crap. If voting was worth while people might actually do it

[gregrutz]

@TEKNINEZ You get your energy from the sun dummy. If you don't take in energy [food] you die. We are not talking about the paint on your house fading, we are tlaking about the energy in chemical bonds of sugar they you live on.

[OutOfTheBoxThinker]

To quote Emma Goldman : "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal". Seriously, no amount of voting is going to help douchebags from getting into office. All it gives you is replacing one douchebag by another, both being mere puppets of the corporate oligarchy.

Having said that.... Nice video series. Just stick with the topics you're good at and avoid politics, please ;-)

[TerrencePhillip66]

@TerrencePhillip66 To recap, works destroys more bonds in a system than it can create. Fewer bonds means less work can be done by the system and it means the atoms can be in a greater possible set of microstates - that is, THERMODYNAMIC DISORDER increases. This is the connection between entropy and disorder, they are diiferent measures of the same thing, two different consequences of fewer molecular bonds in the system as the system does work.

[TerrencePhillip66]

Entropy is a measure of disorder, THERMNODYNAMIC DISORDER, not the 'neat room/messy room' nonsense some people try to claim. A system uses energy to do work. That works is obtained by breaking molecular or atomic bonds. A system will destroy more molecular bonds in terms of their energy content than it can create molecular bonds in terms of energy content. Otherwise you would have an over-unity device. Therefore less usable energy remains in a system as it does work. Entropy made easy.

[Laylow4now]

What does Entropy have to do with the Big Bang?

Well, it seems that Entropy would not produce systems as complex as a DNA strand or even a single celled organism from a bunch of superheated space dust.

Does that help?