Laws of Thermodynamics and Biology  Matt Jones jonesmat at Mon
Jul 17 12:00:55 EST 1995  In article
<Pine.SUN.3.91.950713230414.5102R-100000 at> Betty Martini,
betty at writes: >Evolution is religion, not science.  When you
start making the second law of >thermodynamics go in the wrong
direction you have a problem!  These statements certainly reveal
a problem. The problem, however, does not lie with science,
religion, evolution or the second law of  In Principles of
Physical Chemistry with Applications to the Biological Sciences
(Freifelder, D., 1985, Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett,
Boston), the first three laws of thermodynamics are given as
follows:  First Law - "Energy can neither be created nor
destroyed - the energy of the universe is constant."  Second Law
- "The ability of an isolated system to perform work continually
decreases, and it is never possible to utilize all of the energy
of a system to do work. In all real processes disorder
increases."   Third law - A perfect crystal (one in which all