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To: Aric2000
IS evolution an open system or a closed system?
109 posted on 01/08/2002 8:48:44 AM PST by Darksheare
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To: Darksheare
Poor Poor Darksheare,

You actually believe that Eveolution goes against the laws of Thermodynamics, WRONGO!!

And evolution I would have to say is an open system, because of the fact that the earth not only gains MASSIVE amounts of energy from the sun, but also loses some of that energy to space.

The suns energy and radiation are the DRIVING force for evolution, the radiation from the sun allows the changes in DNA which allow evolution, and some of those changes are kept via natural selection and those that do not work either die or are unable to live, again through natural selection.

There is more then enough energy from the sun to drive evolution.

ALL plants get thier energy from the sun, ALL PLANTS. Without that energy the earth would be a ball of lifeless dirt, without oxygen, created by plants, without animals, which are fed by the plants, etc etc, it is ALL started by the sun, the sun is the DRIVING force!! The plants literally create food from the suns energy. and without the plants to feed off of, animal life would not be able to exist.

So in a word, you're WRONG!!!

At some point in the far future, the law of thermodynamics will kick in for the sun and it will die, when that happens, we will die as well, unless we are already gone, but that will be 4 billion years in the future, so I am not exactly worried about it.
112 posted on 01/08/2002 9:07:15 AM PST by Aric2000
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