crashfrog writes:
Then you've committed the fallacy of the looming caveat; crystals are incredibly common, most elements and compounds can be induced to adopt a crystalline structure under quite prosaic conditions, and usually they do so because the enthalpy change of the system under those conditions as it crystalizes exceeds the entropy loss.
That happens all over the place, Buz, and it's not just something you can sweepingly dismiss with a "by and large." It's a direct and omnipresent counterexample that you can't just pretend is nonexistent.
Apples & oranges, Crashfrog. The forming of crystals involves a lot less time, and work. On the other hand, the creation of a complex human body from chaotic dirt would require intelligent planning and work. To apply life, soul and spirit to the formed body would requre more complex work. The formation of crystals, etc, requires no intellgent planning or thought, nor does it involve life.
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The Immeasurable Present Eternally Extends the Infinite Past And Infinitely Consumes The Eternal Future.
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