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dolphi86 [110]
3 years ago
15

How does the evolutionary process contradict the second law of thermodynamics?

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1 answer:
dlinn [17]3 years ago
6 0

Evolution, the argument goes, is a decrease of entropy, because it involves things getting more organized over time, while the second law says that things get more disordered over time. So evolution violates the second law.

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