ABSTRACT
Christians have sometimes taken refuge in the Second Law of Thermodynamics to argue against the evolution of complex living systems from simpler systems. However, many Christians have gotten into the habit of thinking of God’s direct action in nature as always of a sudden, instantaneous type—never a steady type involving processes which could be studied by the scientific method. “Processes” are considered “natural” and instantaneous events “supernatural.” At both the pre-biological and biological levels, there is great interest in The Molecular Basis of Evolution. The chapter considers the argument entirely invalid, and generally based on a misunderstanding of the Second Law.
