Above: a depiction of the main participants, namely Darwin’s bulldog Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel of the 30 Jun 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Ѻ), held seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species; comparable, in terms of cultural awareness, in some sense, to the 2009 Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate at the Creation Museum. |
“[Although] there is an ongoing debate among economists and natural scientists on the relevance of the laws of thermodynamics for the performance of economic systems, [invariably] physical laws govern production and consumption processes in a fundamental way. A world constrained by the laws of thermodynamics ultimately alters its structure through transformation of matter and dissipation of energy.”
— Matthias Ruth (1993), Integrating Economics, Ecology, and Thermodynamics [3]