In article <jruspini.1.000E4FD5 at mail.sas.upenn.edu>,
Jason M Ruspini <jruspini at mail.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>... I say that it does not because the internal physical
>order gained by a biological system is outweighed by the external chemical
>disorder it causes when it evolves.
In order to have life at all, you need a massive input of energy from the
sun. As the sun "burns," its entropy increases by an amount which far
outweighs the decrease in entropy caused by living processes on earth.
So you need to enlarge your "system" a bit in order to apply the second
law of thermodynamics properly.
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Jon Bell <jtbell at presby.edu> Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA
