"Michael Ragland"  wrote in message 
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> Life, of course, is an anti-entropic system, increasing order inside
> organisms while exporting entropy to the en-vironment, thus preserving
> the validity of the entropy law...

Other natural processes create order from entropy.  A river will sort sand, 
silt and gravel into neat, uniform layers from a chaotic mixture of 
weathered rock.  A bottle of salad dressing settles out into uniform layers 
of oil and water after it has been shaken. Where is the entropy being 
exported in these processes?
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