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To: Right Wing Professor

"If you're under the impression there is a significant entropy difference between a live body and a dead body, or for that matter between a live body and a similar mass of water, please disabuse yourself."

No, but I am under the impression that you can show no examples of extreme complexity arising without intelligent input. I promise to "disabuse" myself when you come up with an appropriate example. And please spare me the juvenile example of a star. Or examples involving living processes. I fully understand that living things can significantly reverse entropy.


332 posted on 10/01/2005 6:42:49 AM PDT by RightInEastLansing
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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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