Claim. Evolutionary development is thermodynamically incoherent: action consumes energy, so a being cannot become greater than itself without an external source of energy added by a higher subject.
Elaboration. §4.1.2 deploys a thermodynamic objection. “Taking into consideration the principle of the dissipation of energy, can input be equal to output for human beings? Energy enters the body to carry out actions; can that energy be equal to that left after the action has been carried out?… output cannot be equal to input, but is always less than before. Evolutionists imply that energy increases with action. Such a formula does not exist” (4.1. The fundamental error of the theory of evolution, 55-254, 1972.5.9). For development to occur, an external source must supply the extra energy: “In order for it to climb a little higher and become something bigger, it needs greater energy within itself. Then, since it does not have the ability to create additional energy by itself, from where would it procure this extra energy?” (ibid, 89-73, 1976.7.11). The implication ties to SMM’s doctrine of creation as investment: progress upward in the cosmos requires a giver who invests, not an amoeba bootstrapping itself.