In which a pretty cool domain is not what it seems to be.

Newton's The third law of thermodynamics is the one that states it is impossible to reduce the temperature of an object to absolute zero. This is a pretty cool fact, but not one that would strike the lay person as yet another example of the beautiful complexity of the universe. It doesn't leave the same impression as, say, a picture of a distant galaxy from the Hubble or a SEM image of an ant. (I grant that you physicists and chemists might really get turned on by the third law, but give me a fractal reconstruction of a fern instead, please. Or the Central Limit Theorem.)

So head over to my buddy Google's place and type "third law of thermodynamics" into the search engine. The third site to pop up has the likely name "www.allaboutscience.org." The explanation of the third law given by allaboutscience.org sounds reasonable enough -- I am not a physicist -- until we reach the very last paragraph:

Why is the Third Law of Thermodynamics true? Why are there no exceptions in the entire universe? This law cannot be an accident, since none of the thermodynamic laws are random. Organization implies an Organizer. Design implies a Designer. If the laws are not random, then who created them?

No shit? The existence of physical laws is evidence for an intelligent designer? Does this mean that the only evidence against an intelligent designer would be uniform entropy throughout the universe? Well, Q.E.D., gosh darn it! We're done!

Not surprisingly, www.allaboutscience.org leads to another site, www.allaboutcreation.org, which in turn leads to www.allaboutreligion.org and www.allaboutgod.org. I didn't examine the reams of drivel published on these sites too closely, but for heaven's sake, don't look at allaboutscience.org's description of the scientific method. It's enough to make the Baby Jesus cry.