Mr. Wagner, you have misrepresented the Laws of Thermodynamics. The argument you used with the Second Law is common but terribly flawed. In a closed system, all actions increase entropy (disorder). This does not rule out the possibility that pockets of order may form as long as disorder is increased overall. Of course the Earth isn’t even a closed system. The sun provides us with much energy, upsetting the tendency to disorder.

As for the argument using the First Law, yes, plenty of evidence supports it, but none of the evidence supports your abuse of it. Actually, the First Law has changed somewhat in recent decades. We now include the interchange of energy and mass. So the energy could have been converted mass. Of course, this assumes that in some form mass is eternal, an attribute you are quick to attribute to your deity. The thing is, though mass is all around us, and I don’t see any evidence for God, Allah, Vishnu, nor Zues [sic]. So it still amounts to you telling a story with no supporting evidence.

Oh, and about your definition of religion, you can hold your applause. Your definition is far more inclusive than you would like. Basically anything anyone does with zeal is a religion. This would make just every human action, thought, or principle into a religion because with 6 billion people out there just about every action is bound to have a zealous person doing it.

One final point, Mr. Wagner. Science is not trying to censor you.

Creationists can speak up all they want.

However, the role of science is not to provide information — our various media do that — the role of science is to make hypotheses about the world and find hard evidence to support them.

Creationism had its chance long before Darwin and failed miserably. As such, creationism is no longer a part of science, but a social, religious and sadly, political movement.

Will Christopher

President

ISU Atheist & Agnostic Society