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:::Historically some have believed in an eternal universe, so it's probably worth mentioning on those grounds alone. And [http://www.cosmologystatement.org/ this] seems to suggest that perhaps some still do. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:13, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
:::Historically some have believed in an eternal universe, so it's probably worth mentioning on those grounds alone. And [http://www.cosmologystatement.org/ this] seems to suggest that perhaps some still do. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:13, 13 May 2007 (EDT)
Perhaps, but it's no valid claim against evolution, since evolutionists don't believe in an eternal universe, also the claim that it points toward a supernatural creation is based on a grave misunderstanding: a simplification that says disorder will increase.
Actually entropy is a little more abstract and the second law of thermodynamics means something like this: the universe will always become increasingly uniform, that is: heat will spread until the entire universe has the temperature and energy level (in a closed system heat will always spread from a place where there is a lot of heat to a place where there is less until balance is achieved), forces will continue to work until a universal balance has been achieved.
In this final state the universe is one uniform space where nothing happens and no work (moving something) can be done since there are above average concentrations of energy left.
This state is called maximum entropy and is said to be in perfect disorder (although intuitively its uniformity would seem to be a state of perfect order) because it has become impossible to determine what happened in the past: there are an infinite number of ways (histories of the universe) maximum entropy could have been reached.
An eternal universe would also need an influx of hydrogen into the universe, because the original supply would have been depleted long ago by fusion inside stars.
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