I had written a lengthy post filled with much humor. Computer crashed. Its all gone.
The slimmed down version:
Order in nature (The word "order" should be more properly defined, but for all intents and purposes I'll use "A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group".)
Snowflakes and other crystals form very very regular patterns completely unintelligently and on their own.
Clouds form in sky in a very orderly fashion. The clouds can be catergorized and predicted.
There is a beautiful stream, as the stream flows, it sorts rocks on the rocks on the river bed. Larger rocks are found in regions of faster flowing water, and an even grade of rocks from larger -> smaller as the speed of the stream slows.
You throw a billiard ball into another, you observe the result. Replicate identical inner and outer conditions, you'll get identical results. Change the conditions in regular intervals, and you'll notice a predictable pattern of behavior emerge as you record your data.
"Order" is a natural consequence of objects casually interacting with other objects.
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
The author has no idea what he is saying, he is merely throwing out buzzwords (and as pointed out, hardly using them correctly).
The author is lucky if he can explain the difference between an open system and closed system, even luckier if he can identify that the earth (which is being showered by the huge star we see during the daytime) is an open system. There is no "continually regressing into disorder" with life as the open system it is.
The next paragraph follows:
The second realization we should get from the Second Law of Thermodynamics is that since all matter and energy tend irreversibly toward maximum randomness, and since the universe is not maximally random today, it cannot have been tending that direction forever. It has only been tending that way for a limited time. This means that matter and energy are not eternal; there was a time when they did not exist. This means that there must be something other than matter and energy that is eternal, for nothing comes from nothing, and if nothing exists but matter and energy, then before matter and energy existed there was nothing.
We're really left with only two options. We can believe that nothing exists, or we can believe that matter and energy and something else exist. But to believe that only matter and energy exist is to deny a basic law of physics.
"Something doesnt come from nothing" is the First Law of Thermodynamics, ya dumdum
Option #3:
Simple description: In the beginning, there was no time or space. No temporal dimension means the universe is not eternal, but has been around for a measurable time. No spacial dimensions means the universe is effectively a 0D point.
According to QM, there exists what are called "virtual particles" can poof into and out of existence (we know these little critters exist, and we are greatful they are around because they evaporate blackholes). A virtual particle poofs into that 0D space... uh-oh, now what happens when you force 20 lbs of potatoes into a 5 lb bag... thats right: BOOM!
A point-particle in a 0D space (a point/singularity) means literally infinite energy. The Big Bang simply refers to the expansion of space, with that expansion there was no longer an infinite amount of energy, but certainly no shortage of it.
Holy moly! Thats a lot of energy with an extremely low entropy. The universe will eventually succomb to the Second Law, but just not yet. The universe is tending more and more towards disorder, as it should be.
Case in point: The author has probably never attempted any outside reading, his claims have been parroted many times by many IDers. "Utter silliness" is how I describe with optimism.
