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Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics

TOPEKA, KS--The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over
time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups,
who are demanding that the law be repealed.

"What do these scientists want us teaching our children? That the

universe will continue to expand until it reaches eventual heat death?"
asked Christian Coalition president Ralph Reed, speaking at a rally
protesting a recent Kansas Board Of Education decision upholding the
law. "That's hardly an optimistic view of a world the Lord created for
mankind. The American people are sending a strong message here:
We don't like the implications of this law, and we will not rest until it
has been reversed in the courts."

The controversial law of nature, which asserts that matter

continually breaks down as disorder increases and heat is lost, has
long been decried by Christian fundamentalists as running counter to
their religion's doctrine of Divine grace and eternal salvation.

"Why can't disorder decrease over time instead of everything

decaying?" asked Jim Muldoon of Emporia, KS. "Is that too much to
ask? This is our children's future we're talking about."

"I wouldn't want my child growing up in a world headed for total Above: Conservative Christians protest the second
heat death and dissolution into a vacuum," said Kansas state senator law of thermodynamics on the steps of the Kansas
Will Blanchard (R-Hutchinson). "No decent parent would want that." Capitol.

Calling the second law of thermodynamics "a deeply disturbing scientific principle that threatens our children's
understanding of God's universe as a benevolent and loving place," Blanchard is spearheading a nationwide grassroots
campaign to have the law removed from high-school physics textbooks. The plan has already met with significant support in
the state legislatures of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi.

"My daughter's schoolbooks tell her that we live in a world ruled by

disorder," said Knox Heflin, one of several dozen fundamentalists who spoke
out against the teaching of the law at a Statesboro (GA) School Board hearing.
"That's a direct contradiction of what it says in the Bible, about how everything
is going to get better, and we'll all live happily up in heaven after the End
Times."

"The only 'heat death' Jesus ever mentioned is the one that sinners will
suffer for all eternity in the Lake of Fire," said Indianola (MS) School Board
president Bernice McCallum. "Now more than ever, we need to hear what the
Bible has to say about our public schools' physical-science curricula."

Leading physicists contend that, as the foundation of much of our current

scientific understanding, a reversal of the second law of thermodynamics would
Above: Christian Coalition president Ralph have massive ramifications on the future of both our nation and the universe
Reed holds a textbook he claims is being itself.
used to teach physics in schools.
"Were the second law to be repealed, random particles would collect and
organize themselves instead of dissipating, which could affect such basic processes as combustion, digestion, evaporation,
convection--that sort of thing," Columbia University superstring theorist Dr. Brian Greene said. "There wouldn't be much
sunlight, either, because all stars, including our sun, would be collecting photons from surrounding space instead of emitting
solar radiation. Oh, and the universe would begin to contract rather than expand, which could possibly turn back the flow of
time itself, sending our cosmos spiraling inward toward a reverse Big Bang, a sort of 'Big Crunch,' if you will."

"In light of all this," Greene continued, "I would sincerely hope that our nation's legislators think long and hard before
making any decisions to amend or repeal this law."

Despite such warnings, the grassroots movement to eliminate the second law of thermodynamics appears to be
gathering strength.

"This is America," said Duane Collins, a Gatlinburg, TN, distillery operator and father of five. "And in this country, we
have the God-given right to change laws we don't think are Christian. We are united in our demands that the second law of
thermodynamics be repealed, and our voice will be heard no matter what. That's just a plain fact, and nothing anybody says
can ever change it."

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