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RE: Entropy vs Christ (A scientific basis for Jesus Christ Part II)
Your post is physically inaccurate. Stars do not build complex atoms by decreasing entropy. They in fact do the opposite; by going from hydrogen to atoms with a higher atomic number, less energy is needed for the bonds. This energy is released in the form of light, which increases the entropy of the system.
Life manages to keep entropy more or less the same by using the energy released from the sun. It does not create order from chaos, it merely reshuffles the energy. But even life has its boundaries, hence people get cancer and other deceases.
The core of the sun becomes more ordered...heavier more complex elements... the light leaves the star... energy is lost... therefore entropy decrease in the sun. This is lost to the rest of the solar system and beyond...
Life is only possible because the earth is not a closed system.... turn off the sun and all life eventually disintegrates.
The constant energy input in the form of light from the sun has been the hand rolling the ball uphill from an evolutionary perspective.
You're right, I thought you meant the entropy of the system was decreasing. I don't think your analogy between entropy in the physical sense and disorder in the everyday sense of the word is much more than that, though.
It is likely our sun will go nova (bigger ones go super nova) which releases far more energy than it does now. (at least that is the hypothesis and observation of novas at this time it does have a theory that fits at the moment)