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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How do evolution deniers use the laws of thermodynamics to prove their case against evolution?
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They take the notion of entropy, and point out that current scientific knowledge points out two things. First, entropy is always rising. Second, complex biological organisms decrease entropy.

That sounds like a contradiction, right? That's the argument they make: there *must* be some divine intervention or, according to our best science, there would be no way for complex organisms to evolve.

As you may have already guessed, the people making this argument are *not* trained scientists. They're missing a crucial detail: entropy always rises in a closed system (one which has no energy coming in). The Earth is not a closed system. In fact, none of the systems discussed by evolution, or biology in general, are closed systems.

In a single sentence: creationists have forgotten that the sun exists.