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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics proves evolution is scientifically impossible because entropy only increases
The second law governs closed systems, and Earth isn't one: it runs on a continuous stream of energy from the sun.
The second law of thermodynamics does say that the total entropy of an isolated system never decreases over time. The argument leaves out the word 'isolated.' An isolated system is one that exchanges neither matter nor energy with anything outside it: a sealed, insulated box. Earth is not that. It's an open system, constantly bathed in energy from the sun and constantly radiating heat back out into space. Local pockets of that system can become more ordered (a seed growing into a plant, a fertilized egg developing into an embryo, water freezing into a snowflake's crystal structure) without breaking any law, because the ordering is paid for by energy flowing through the system and entropy being exported elsewhere. None of that is controversial physics; it's the same reason a refrigerator can get colder inside while the room around it gets warmer.
What's notable is that this isn't just secular scientists correcting an outside argument: plenty of Christian organizations that hold a young-earth or design-friendly position, including ones that reject evolution on other grounds, have publicly said this specific argument doesn't work and shouldn't be used, because any physicist can dismantle it in one sentence. That matters more than it might seem: an argument that gets a strong believer laughed out of a room doesn't just fail on its own, it makes every other argument on the same platform sound less credible by association.
A quick note on fit for this tool: this isn't a Bible-verse claim at all, it's a piece of pop-apologetics reasoning that circulates in Christian culture, so there's no scripture reference to correct it against. It's included here because it behaves exactly like the other entries: a claim that sounds authoritative, gets repeated confidently, and turns out not to hold up under a plain reading of the source material, in this case a physics textbook instead of a Bible passage.