re: #63 turn

One of the truly amazing things about the evolution of life on earth is that it really does fly in the face of the entropy laws of thermodynamics.

No, it doesn’t. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

The earth is not an isolated system. See that big shiny thing up there in the sky, called the sun? It’s constantly bathing the earth in energy. The second law of thermodynamics does not apply to the earth’s ecology.