Evolution as Entropy Versus Organization

'Evolution doesn't view earth's history as a conflict between good and evil. It does essentially view it as a conflict between life and death, between increased organization and more efficient energy use on the part of life, and an opposing tendency of nonliving matter to become disorganized and lose energy--entropy. But evolution doesn't see life as good and death as evil. Life cannot triumph over death in evolution. They don't fight to win. As with some of the older myths, wherein the natural dualities of light and darkness, sun and moon, male and female, performed an eternal, amoral dance of opposites, evolutionary life and death are interdependent: two halves of the world. Evolution would be impossible if organisms did not die.'

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Evolution as a conflict between entropy (death) and increased organization (life).

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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Wallace, David Rains (April 24, 2003), The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, University of California Press, Retrieved on 2009-11-30

Triples

15 APR 2011

Two Perspectives on Entropy and Life

Evolution as Entropy Versus Organization > Comparison > Life as the Reduction of Entropy
Two ways of describing life as resistance to entropy. Once is life versus death, organization versus disorganization, the other as the intake of energy to maintain syntropy within the organism.

Folksonomies: entropy syntropy. life

Schemas

30 DEC 2013

Life Fights Entropy

Memes on the fact that life is increasing organization in a world of increasing chaos.

Folksonomies: life entropy thermodynamics