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Your friend says that the second law of thermodynamics can't be true because life itself is a highly ordered system that wouldn't exist if everything tended to maximum entropy. What is your friend forgetting about life on the earth? Living things start out disordered and then increase in entropy. Living things start out ordered and then increase in entropy. The earth is not a closed system, and energy enters it as sunlight. ****** My answer ****** The earth is a closed system, and thus the environment is at maximum entropy.
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