Wings

[DR. JAMES ADAMS]

Dear listers/Mark,

Doug wrote:

> >By the same logic you are using to naysay evolution, you
> can naysay life itself, which is ALL anti-entropic. 

Mark responded:
 
> Yep, I totally agree.  In fact, that is precisely my point.  Life itself is
> in conflict with entropy.  Therefore there MUST be a guiding external force
> at work to sustain it.  Without this force, life would be nay-sayed.  It's a
> good thing that isn't the case, otherwise our email would stop working.

But you again miss the point.  The earth's ecosystem, as Doug so 
sternly pointed out, is not *closed*.  There *is* a constant source 
of energy being provided to it from the *sun*.  Life is not 
anti-entropic, nor did Doug say it was.  He simply said that, 
following *your* logic, life would be anti-entropic.  No laws of 
physics have been violated by anything life does, since there is a 
constant supply of energy being provided.  If you were around in 
several billion years to watch the sun go "giant" and then "dwarf", 
you would really understand just how much under the "control" of 
entropy we all are here on Earth.

           Oh, and sorry that you haven't seen much in the way of 
bugs recently.  Not much happening here either, though I did see the 
first Monarch coming through here yesterday, the first one I've seen 
in months.

          James