[DManA]

"Every time you break an egg or spill a glass of water, you're learning about the Big Bang," Professor Carroll explained.

Seems to me life is exempt from the Second Law. In order to have an egg to break some animal had to organize random elements into an organized structure of the egg.

[KarlInOhio]

Seems to me life is exempt from the Second Law. In order to have an egg to break some animal had to organize random elements into an organized structure of the egg.

The chicken and egg aren't a closed system unto themselves. Life is able to make things more organized locally only because of the energy supplied by the sun, which is increasing in entropy.

[Gondring]

I was thinking “Ya gotta break some eggs to make a universe!” ;-)