Re: how does God defy the second law of thermodynamics


"francisco" <paco1955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> if i drop an ice cube in a cup of hot water, the hot water cools down and
> the ice cube melts simultaneously until the temperature of the water and
> the temperature of melted ice cube are the same. the final product of this
> process is a body of lukewarm water. a negative entropy change is a change
> in the state of a system towards organization and order (a change towards
> life), and a positive entropy change is a change in the state of a system
> towards disorganization, disorder, and randomness (towards death). the
> change of the hot water in this process is a negative entropy change., and
> the change of the ice cube is a positive entropy change. if sw = the
> negative entropy change of the hot water and si = the positive entropy
> change of the ice cube, then, according to the second law of
> thermodynamics, sw + si > 0. in other words, the total entropy change of
> the process during the passage of time is positive. this means that the
> direction of time of the things in this world under the influence of the
> second law of thermodynamics is towards death.
>
> on the other hand, suppose that God is a divine ice cube.

Can this supposed God create a rock he/she can not lift? Post your
religious musings on a reliigous forum - this is a forum for physics.

Bill

> if i drop the divine ice cube in a cup of hot water, the hot water cools
> down, but the divine ice cube does not melt (it does not change at all).
> the change of the hot water is a negative entropy change, but there is no
> entropy change in the state of the divine ice cube. if sw = the negative
> entropy change of the hot water and c = the constant (yet dynamic) state
> of the divine ice cube, then sw + c < 0. in other words, the total entropy
> change of the process during the passage of time is negative. this means
> that the direction of time of the things of this world under the influence
> of God is towards life (the opposite direction of the time of the things
> in this world under the influence of the second law of thermodynamics).
>
>


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