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To: RightInEastLansing
You used the term entropy, a thermodynamic term with a specific definition, to describe some goofy idea about complexity.

I fully understand that living things can significantly reverse entropy.

You understand that, do you? Well, it's wrong. Living things obey the same second law and other thermodynamic laws everything else does. Entropy increases in any spontaneous process. There are no exceptions.

Define complexity for me, and I'll show you how it can arise.

337 posted on 10/01/2005 7:01:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
You used the term entropy, a thermodynamic term with a specific definition, to describe some goofy idea about complexity.

What word would you prefer me to use in describing the process of creating order from disorder?

Entropy increases in any spontaneous process. And your point is? Are you denying reverse entropy? Your existence seems to refute this absurd claim.

347 posted on 10/01/2005 7:59:47 AM PDT by RightInEastLansing
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