Bmord
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EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 02:43, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Discussion edit
- The edits on Creationism should be put in other places. Mainly this is on physics topics and there are a lot of other possibilities to create new articles on Creationism and relationship with/or/and second law of thermodynamics. I am waiting your response. -- Bonaparte talk 13:11, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
- I suggest you create new articles for Creationism and relationship with/or/and second law of thermodynamics and let the article of second law of thermodynamics free of ambiguous links. -- Bonaparte talk 13:11, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Bonaparte, thank you for your interest and for leaving me this message, let me now respond as best I can.
You speak of two things - science, and religion. To accord each the proper respect, a good encyclopedia (as a forum of secondary, not primary, research) must take care to use appropriate source material for each. In an article about Christianity, for example, source material might include the Bible, the works of biblical scholars and theologians, recognized leaders of various communities including the Pope, position papers produced by organizations such as the ELCA, etc...
In an article about science, proper source material includes papers published in reputable peer-reviewed journals of scientific research, as well as derivative work based on these such as college textbooks.
What you seek is to use one scientific theory - the second law of thermodynamics, against another scientific theory - the theory of evolution. You believe you have found a contradiction, such that one of these theories must win at the expense of the other. You also believe the loser will turn out to be evolution. Ok. Then what you are talking about here is clearly science, not religion. Therefore, as an encyclopedia, we must look to the scientific forums of primary research to evaluate and sort out your claims.
If there is well-received discussion in a reputable peer-reviewed forum of scientific research on the field of thermodynamics or else a journal of biology regarding possible incompatibilities between the 2nd law of thermodynamics and the theory of evolution, then this might already be an appropriate topic for a modern encyclopedia - even today. To the best of my knowledge, however, this does not currently exist. Unless I am wrong on that, then this proposed 2nd law/evolution issue is not an appropriate topic for wikipedia at this time.
I hope this helps. Bmord 05:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Second Law question edit
Hi Ben, I left a couple more comments on the Second Law talk page, which is now archived. It looks like our (initially contradicting) opinions have converged to an agreement on that focused sunlight question. But my argument had to converge more, because it was mostly wrong. :) --Glengarry 19:09, 28 May 2006 (UTC)