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The Lights of Perverted Science

Reginald10 Wrote: May 07, 2012 4:20 PM
"the existence of life refutes the Second Law of Thermodynamics." No, not really. You are neglecting to calculate in the food used and waste produced. A lot of food is degraded, to produce a little more living tissue. The net is an overall increase in Entropy, even though one part (the living part) has a local (and, alas, temporary) decrease in its entropy.
True Conservative! Wrote: May 07, 2012 7:12 PM
BEFORE there was life, just chemicals, did the chemicals decide they needed food to reproduce? Did the chemicals, therefore, violate the Second Law? Is that a little tougher to answer, Reggie?
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.- Winston Churchill
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