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A Truthy Fact

6/14/07

    I am writing in response to Thursday’s letter "Creation Museum doesn’t Stray from Facts". I have not seen the new creation museum myself, so I will not comment on that claim. The author of the letter does, however, stray from facts.
    I strongly disagree with the writer’s statement that the laws of thermodynamics can not be true if evolutionary theory is valid. I find no scientific evidence that  this statement is anything but the author’s personal opinion. Further, I was appalled at his misstatement of the second law of thermodynamics. The second law says that energy systems have a tendency to increase their entropy. It does NOT state that energy and matter are moving from order to disorder! However, it is worth noting that a lot of creationist literature does misrepresent the second law of thermodynamics in exactly that way.

    The writer claims a college degree in "a scientific field". Politeness prevents me from speculating what type of science he is referring to, but I suggest that, in the future, the writer try getting his scientific facts from an actual scientific source rather than from a religious webiste masquerading as science. I realize that our current government frowns upon too much truth in its science, but it does prevent ones foot from ending up wedged in ones mouth in print.

    I have only a degree in an "Arts field" myself, but a 30 second Google search was enough for even me to discover the truth about the subject. Of course, that assumes one is interested in discovering the truth.