A Review of Ray Comfort’s The Atheist Delusion (Yep, I Watched the Whole Thing)

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51. Intelligent Design destroyed with math:

Evolution says that things happen because of random events. The ID-claim is that random events cannot create a state of lower entropy (higher information).

1. The laws of thermodynamics only apply when the system is in equilibrium. They do not apply for non-equilibrium-systems.

2. The laws of thermodynamics are most often about scenarios with infinite particles.

3. It is possible for a random event to destroy entropy:
Let's take a classic example: The streaming-experiment of Gay-Lussac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Louis_Gay-Lussac
You have two volumes. One volume has n gas-particles, the other volume is empty. You open the valve between the volumes and the particles spread evenly between the two volumes.

Q: What is the probability for one particle to be on one side of the valve but not on the other?
A: 1/2

Q: What is the probability for all n particles to be on one side of the valve and none to be on the other side?
A: (1/2)^n

Q: What happens if random events make all particles go to one volume and then a random event closes the valve?
A: Then a random event has just created information and thus destroyed entropy.

=> Random events can create information.



ID's argument would be valid if there were an infinite amount of particles. But in real life there is no chemical system with infinite particles.