[quote]OK I'm confused about evolution. What type of evolution are you talking about? The first law of thermodynamics says energy can't be created nor destroyed. I understand that evolution came from a singularly but I was reading an article last night and it said that they don't know where all of the energy came from. That is my problem...I'm not understanding where all of the energy came from...of it's not in violation of the first law then why is this law saying energy can't be created nor destroyed? The laws of the universe explain how the universe works. Like the second law, things tend to break down. Evolution is adding genetic information to the thing, but the second law contradicts it? I'm confused in understanding the logic. Can you explain?[/quote] Biological evolution has nothing to do with what you are talking about in your first paragraph, but I will try to explain it to you anyway. The laws of thermodynamics only work in a closed system. A system with no outside influence. The Earth is not a closed system, it is constantly hit with solar radiation, it has an atmosphere, asteroids can come from space and hit us. It is by no means a closed system. So the laws of thermodynamics don't even apply. You are correct in saying we don't know where that energy came from. However this still doesn't have anything to do with biological evolution. We know from observation of the expansion of the universe, and the cosmic background radiation that the big bang did happen. We know it happened but we do not know the cause. The big bang theory only explains what did happen, not why it happened. However people are always looking into it to find the answers. Genes can be added and removed due to mutations in DNA. Those genes are made up of molecules and atoms. Specifically nitrogen. It is completely possible for nitrogen to be added, creating more DNA. Also it is important to recognize that we have thousands of deactivated genes in our genome. For instance, we have all the genes for a tail, yet we don't have a tail in our phenotype. This is because those genes are not activated. Those laws only work in a closed system, so they simply don't apply because we aren't in a closed system.