Zu guter Letzt Betrachtungen ueber die Auswirkung des zweiten thermodynamischen Gesetzes , also Entropy , auf das Endschicksal des Universums – seinem Kaeltetod.
Oft wird von 'Christen' das Argument gemacht , dass Kreation und Perfektion von Lebensformen dem 2ten Thermodynamischen Gesetz zuwider laeuft . Ergo sei das ein Beweis fuer einen 'christlichen Gott'. Auf dem ersten Blick stimmt das auch : waehrend der Kosmos auf der Einbahnstrasse vermehrte Entropie weitergeht, verringert sich Entropie auf Erden.
Dabei wird aber nicht bedacht, dass eine Entropieverringerung an einem Punkt des Kosmos nur durch Entropievermehrung an einem anderen Punkt moeglich gemacht wird : Entopieverringerung auf der Erde auf Kosten der Entropievermehrung der Sonne.
Zuerst Darwin , dann Bertrand Russell , letzterer weil es in der englischen Literatur eine beruehmte Passage ist - sie ist auch schoen.
Zitat :
"As Darwin wrote in the closing pages of the first edition of On the Origin of Species:
“As all the living forms of life are the linear descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken , and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length . And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being , all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection “
Tatiz.
Nachdem Darwin spaeter mit dem ‘heat death’ des Universums vertraut war , schrieb er etwas enttaeuscht darueber in sein Tagebuch :
‘ [consider] .... the view now held by most physicists, namely that the sun with all the planets will in time grow too old for life, unless indeed some great body dashes into the sun and thus give it fresh life- there is a clash between ‘life’ and ‘believing’. Believing as I do that Man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is , it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
( N. Barlow {ed.}, The autobiography of Charle Darwin { Harcourt brace , NY, 1959}. p.92)
Zitat :
"Darwin wrote those words in 1859 , just slightly ahead after the formulation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics , but before its dysteleological implications became generally known. The graet German physicist Hermann von Helmholz was the first to point out , in an article published in 1854 , that the Second Law suggested the Universe was using up all its available energy, and thus within a finite time all future changes must cease; the universe and all living things therein must die when the Universe is progressing toward some goal; but rather is using p the store of available energy which existed in the beginning. The Universe is actually moving from a higher state to a lower state. The universe , in other words , is not teleological, but dysteleological!
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The new attitude this produced concerning the relationship between man and the Cosmos was epitomized in 1903 in a famous passage of Bertrand Russell’s:
... the world which science presents for our belief is even more purposeless, more void of meaning, [ than a world in which God is malevolent]. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideas henceforward must find a home. That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin , his growth, his hopes and fears , his loves and his beliefs , are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire , no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling , can preserve an individual life beyond the grave ; that all the labours of all the ages , all the devotion , all the inspiration , all the noonday brightness of the whole temple of Man’s achievements must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins – all these things , if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so neatly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths , only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair , can the soul’s habitation henceforth be savely build.
( B. Russell, Why I am not a Christian . Georg Allen & Unwin , NY, 1957, p.107 )
Tatiz.
Spaeter schrieb B. Russel , ach was, wen interessiert das schon was in ein paar tausend oder aar Millionen Jahren geschehen wird. Bis dahin hat's noch viel Zeit und 'life must go on'.
Recht hatte er ja.
( John D. Barrow & Frank J. Tipler ; The Anthropic Cosmological Principle .)
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