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

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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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