The law of entropy can also be called the law of increasing disorder; but this law...

The law of entropy can also be called the law of increasing disorder; but this law seems to contradict the existence of living organisms that are able to organize chemicals into organic molecules. Explain how living things seem to be able to defy the laws of thermodynamics in terms of the universe's entropy due to life processes and the entropy within a living organism.

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So far, we know Darwin’s theory of Evolution that explain in detail about the evolution of our lives. A lot of things are not very clear, yet to be investigated. It tells that naturally occur evolution or selection of changes is the most appropriate for the survival of any species in the particular environment. But, how the selection occurs, how nature chooses the existence of species on any planet is yet to be answered. Obviously, the entropy can never decrease but, it is also obvious that entropy of the biosphere is decreasing because things getting more ordered as that of earlier disordered situation in biological level. Which means matter involve in formation of biosphere getting more organised which defines the decrement of entropy and that violates the “always increment in entropy” theory. This made us very clear that their may exist some laws which are not discovered yet which defines the self-organising of organisms in the biosphere.

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