Re: evolution?(please read)

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From: Patrick Van Esch
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 00:00

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Fred McGalliard wrote:
> 
> Be careful. If you draw your circle around a community of organisims,
> rather than just an individual, your subject may certainly be in
> equilibrium. The current dynamic equilibrium is supported by the steady
> input of solar power, and is remarkably stable over all.

That is not right.  In the same way you could say
that my car is in equilibrium when driving 100 km/h
as long as I can tank enough petrol.

Of course it is right if you redefine the word equilibrium.
But then everything is in equilibrium, for a suitable redefinition
of the word.

Life lives on entropy increase.  A system that causes an increase
in entropy cannot - by definition - be in equilibrium, for equilibrium
only occurs at a state of maximum entropy.

cheers,
Patrick.

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From: Patrick Van Esch <vanesch@club.innet.be>
Subject: Re: evolution?(please read)
Date: 1997/05/08
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