If things tend toward entropy and disorder, why is there anything?

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Like why planet? Why sphere? Why is there a solar system? Why system instead of no system? How did entropy create anti-entropy agents? Bees, humans, anything that builds non-random structures?
Sorry if this is a bad question, it just popped into my head and it won’t go away.

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This is a great question and one part of the answer that is often overlooked is related to life on earth. First, let’s take a look at crystals. They form on their own some very well organized structures and in this way, form structures that have less entropy. Life has come about on earth in a very similar way. Life has found a way using DNA, amino acids, and other building blocks to _decrease_ entropy over time. This was very unlikely but it happened! It’s fun to think about this fortunate event.

Note that this answer just supplements the other great answers given.

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