A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

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The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Source
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Is the Human Shoulder Badly Designed?

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Watch an acrobat performing on the parallel bars. Or a baseball player pitching a fastball. Or an athlete swimming the butterfly. Source
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Yes, Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence — Let’s Hear Some for Darwinian Evolution

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Carl Sagan famously said, “I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” Source
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The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law 

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Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Source
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