1. In the 1959 Rede Lecture, The Two Cultures, C. P. Snow asserts
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermo- dynamics. The response was cold it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the equivalent of Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
Do you think that this analogy (between the second law and Shakespeare) is appropriate? Write a paragraph defending your position.
2. In his book The Trouble Waters, Henry Morris proclaims
The Law of Increasing Entropy is an impenetrable barrier which no evolutionary mechanism yet suggested has ever been able to overcome. Evolution and entropy are opposing and mutually exclusive concepts. If the entropy principle is really a universal law, then evolution must be impossible.
Is this argument scientifically sound? Explain.