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SJ> Thaxton et. al., "The Mystery of Life's Origin", 1992, pp116-117).
>Either the universe is ultimately uphill with some temporary downhill
>exceptions (Huxley), or the universe is ultimately downhill with some
>temporary uphill exceptions (Morris).
GB>(The latter is correct, in case you're ever asked at an interview.)
The latter is not correct. The universe is monotonically
increasing in entropy. Living systems make entropy increase at
a faster rate. Those who use "order vs. disorder" as their
metric carefully ignore the disorder that life inevitably
engenders along the way. Their argument flunks the
pooper-scooper test.
Wesley