RE: The Problem with Christians
March 10, 2016 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2016 at 11:39 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(March 10, 2016 at 7:39 pm)AJW333 Wrote: Well that's an interesting argument but looking at a barren earth 4.5 billion years ago turning into a place that is literally teeming with incredibly complex life forms, it still represents a massive reversal of local entropy, especially considering that the contributions from outside the local system of the earth appear to be somewhat limited.
Not true - life increases entropy! Our planet was losing its stored energy in a slow, orderly fashion, when along came a few, then a few million, and eventually quadrillions upon kazillions of life forms which were sucking up energy out of the soil, using up all its stored energy, and breaking up the rocks so that even more energy could be sucked up out of them and then expelled to be radiated out through the atmosphere. Then along came animal life, which helped plants achieve this even faster, while they too redirect the energy which they consume.
What the above implies is that because the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics exists, life doesn't just happen - it is mandated to happen, wherever possible (and we still don't know the half of it on all the possible scenarios), in order to uphold that law.
Read this article on MIT research - I really don't know why it isn't making more news than it is, because once you read it, it's a major "a-DUH, why didn't I think of it that way?":
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-...y-of-life/
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