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In this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years - entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated in most textbooks on thermodynamics, but can, in fact, be comprehended through sheer common sense; and second, that entropy is not a mysterious quantity that has resisted understanding but a simple, familiar and easily comprehensible concept.Written in an accessible style, the book guides the read

Entropy. --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- 2nd law of thermodynamics --- Laws of thermodynamics --- Thermodynamics --- Second law of thermodynamics --- thermodynamica --- entropie --- Entropy

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Entropic Creation is the first book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, and the theory proposed by certain Christian scholars during the period 1860 to 1920 that the entropic creation argument is proof of a divine creation of the world.

Cosmology --- Entropy --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- Creationism. --- Religion and science. --- Thermodynamics --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- 2nd law of thermodynamics --- Laws of thermodynamics --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Creation science --- Scientific creationism --- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy --- Bible and evolution --- Creation --- Evolution (Biology) --- Intelligent design (Teleology) --- Religious aspects --- History. --- Philosophy --- History --- Religious aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Christianity --- Cosmologie --- Entropie --- Deuxième principe de la thermodynamique --- Créationnisme --- Religion et sciences --- Aspect religieux --- Philosophie --- Histoire