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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2002-11-19T03:47:11'
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title: Deal me into Thermodynamics
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The three laws of thermodynamics expressed as a poker game:

  * You can't win
  * You can't break even
  * You can't get out of the game

Here's [an essay that uses](http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo/Sciacademy/riggins/thermo.htm "Thermodynamics for Two, Please") that analogy to quickly dismiss the tired creationist argument that evolution can't happen because "it violates the second law of thermodynamics."