Evolution - Is It Scientific?

             As I was growing through my school years, the principle of evolution was presented as a fact. My teachers believed that it was the "only way it happened." I too was entrenched into this mode of thinking. How could all the knowing scientists, films, and textbooks be wrong? It did seem to explain how things happened in the past. After all, the mission of science is to systematize knowledge; therefore, all seemed to be logical.
             I did not question the possibility that the scientists could he in error until my sophomore year of college. At that point in my life I started to approach the idea of evolution from a standpoint of: Anything in science, to be scientific, must be logical. There seemed to be some major problems in the inherent theory (logic), of the entire scenario.
             Evolution in the extended sense can be defined as a directional and irreversible process occurring in time, which in its course gives rise to an increase of variety and an increasingly high level of organization in its products.
             In essence, the doctrine of organic evolution postulates the ascent (evolutionists call it "descent") of life from simpler forms. The order is noteworthy: disorder to order; simple to complex, all happening via spontaneity.
             I would like to address four areas which are in question:
             A) THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
             D) EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION HAPPENING
             Being a physicist and chemist, I have studied a great deal about the second law of thermodynamics. Evolution by spontaneity, in my mind (logically), is swept aside by this single, fundamental and underlying law. The second law of thermodynamics is also know as the "law of entropy" and is sometimes termed as "time's arrow" or the "law of degradation of energy." It may be variously stated, but the most appropriate statement of it as far as its application to Darwinian evolution is concerned is as follows:
             "All natural occurring processes move in the direction o...

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