This section examines the prediction of current science that order always decreases. Thermodynamics requires every closed system to become more disordered over time, so order should constantly decrease in our universe, but as Strogatz points out:
“Scientists have often been baffled by the existence of spontaneous order in the universe. The laws of thermodynamics seem to dictate the opposite, that nature should inexorably degenerate toward a state of greater disorder, greater entropy. Yet all around us we see magnificent structures—galaxies, cells, ecosystems, human beings—that have all somehow managed to assemble themselves.” (Strogatz, 2003).
If disorder always increases, how did 14 billion years of more disorder produce the present order? If you woke up in a warm bed with an electric blanket, would you accept the theory that mankind has been devolving since they lived in caves? It doesn’t make sense, so either the prediction is wrong or something else is operating.
QR5.6.1. Is Energy Conserved?
QR5.6.2. What Is Conserved?
QR5.6.3. Disorder is Probable
QR5.6.4. Order is Possible
QR5.6.5. Evolution Creates Order
QR5.6.6. Armageddon