From Kramer:
It is complete lunacy to have an entropic force that is busy dismantling atoms, from prior ordered states into greater and greater states of randomness and chaos with time (the Second Law Of Thermodynamics) and at the same time claim that all things are going from good to better, through a series of fortuitous accidents. It is our vanity that does not allow us to see the TRUTH and that is IT IS ALL ONE WAY -DOWN. Everything rots. We rot the moment we are conceived. It is a cast iron standard bearer basic law of biology, in the Universe of Parts. Our Universe.
The problem is that this downward spiral can be thwarted by the input of energy. The second law says that WITHOUT THE INPUT OF ENERGY, things will become the same temperature, on average. Even without the input of energy entropy can still decrease within the system, or rather temperature differences can sporadically increase in one area even if the whole system is moving towards entropic "death".
The fact remains that the earth recieves large amounts of energy from the sun. This energy allows life to create complex biomolecules that carry energy, fully allowed since the increase in entropy of the sun far outweighs the decrease of entropy on earth. This is the fact that Kramer either misses or ignores, that entropy can decrease if energy is inputted into a system. Devolution is not required by the second law of thermodynamics. If our sun stops putting out energy then evolution will cease, as will life for that matter.
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