Not sure if it's been posted before, but this made me chuckle. Actually, it's too good - I've seen so many of these arguments in this very forum over the years. I am sure we have multiple iterations of them running in various threads right now.



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Too true ...

Just tried 6/7 different routes through that and I'm definitely sure we've had some of them.

The bombardier beetle represents a grave concern for liberal Christians because it leads to immoral behaviour and also Hitler believed in it.



Come to think of it that's better than most creationist crap.

I like that

Too true.

The "2nd law of thermodynamics" is the one I'm most commonly confronted with in RL so I was laughing from the get-go.

Anyone know why they bring this argument up so much? Isn't the answer glaring at them in the face every single fucking day?

Because they don't understand science, and are just blindly repeating what others have told them is true - just like their entire religious belief set.

Thermodynamics is one of the most difficult parts of physics. When you come to statistical mechanics it also gets boring... Just the concept of entropy is one that most people and, many times even physics students, do not fully understand. I have a good background in physics and want to get a physics bachelor's from the OU, and still there are things about entropy and thermodynamics I do not fully comprehend.

This is one of the most difficult concepts, and the 2nd law of thermodynamics has more than one ways that it has been phrased, by a number of scientists.

I always love this:

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington wrote:The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.