Eli5: Entropy will increase in closed system then how evolution occured and life began in the first place.

Question

Thermodynamics : Entropy will increase in a closed system.
Evolution : Hold My bear

why tho?!

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Answer 1

You aren’t looking at the full system, the earth is not isolated: The earth is receiving 10^26 joules of energy every second from our big old entropy generator in the sky, our sun. Life can use that radiant energy to increase order locally, just not more than the disorder that the sun itself causes.