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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by TravisCooper on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @09:59AM (#39104165)
If you have an erroneous view of life and it's origins on earth, you'll come up with variations of this type of thinking.

However, life didn't evolve through a random walk of chemical reactions turning into complex systems with the ability to replicate and gain ever increasing complexity over time. Not possible.

Entropy is increasing.

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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by spuz on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:22AM (#39104559)
Increase in entropy does not imply decrease in complexity. Actually physicists believe the relationship between entropy and complexity is more of a bell shape curve.

https://youtu.be/MTFY0H4EZx4

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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:11AM (#39104333)
> However, life didn't evolve through a random walk of chemical reactions turning into complex systems with the ability to replicate and gain ever increasing complexity over time. Not possible.

How else could it have evolved?

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Re:Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in ... by pfdietz on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:44AM (#39105814)
Oh look, another person utterly mangling the meaning of the second law of thermodynamics.

Evolution is in no way in contradiction to the 2nd law.

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