system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How is it that everything in life is in a constant state of entropy (where everything degrades over time), and yet it's the general consensus that the universe/life has naturally progressed on it's own? (Related to the data.is.beautiful post from this morning)

I'm agnostic/atheist and still have a hard time wrapping my brain around this.
gpt
The sun is converting hundreds of tons of matter into energy every second.

This enormously entropic process ultimately drives the vast majority of chemical processes on Earth.  Reactions that become more ordered (like photosynthesis) require a significant energy input from elsewhere.

The Earth isn't a closed system, chemistry here can run against the current as long as the sun keeps providing fuel.