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TrashPosterInTheDark
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It's the exact oposite. Laws of entropy degrade DNA in an observable manner.
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Actually life might be inevitable as it helps the process of using energy and maximising entropy.
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“In 1964, James Lovelock was among a group of scientists who were requested by NASA to make a theoretical life detection system to look for life on Mars … “What is life, and how
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should it be recognized?”…Lovelock replied "I’d look for an entropy reduction since this must be a general characteristic of life." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life
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Since then they have recognised that the presence of life increases the rate of entropy gain in the surrounding system. Just using electricity is an easy example.
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you mean like us generating electricity / using more energy?
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Yes. Really the only way to lower entropy of a system is to increase universal entropy. Refrigeration is a good example. Lower entropy in the fridge increases it in the home.
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yep. good example
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The second law doesn't claim that the entropy of any part of a system increases: if it did, ice would never form and vapor would never condense, since both of those processes involve a
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decrease of entropy. Rather, the second law says that the total entropy of the whole system must increase. http://physics.gmu.edu/~roerter/EvolutionEntropy.htm