Which law violates second law of thermodynamics?
Some people claim that the existence of life violates the 2nd law, and those people use that as a justification for intelligent design or creationism. The emergence of life appears (to them) to be a decrease in entropy. In fact, it’s true that the earth’s entropy does decrease in time. These people use this fact to say that life violates the 2nd law. However, those people live in a dark world. The reason why biological life does not violate the second life is because the earth itself is not a closed system. The earth is constantly being bombarded with energy from the sun as light and heat. Plants are able to use that light to break apart the carbon out of the air to build sugars that store that energy (which eventually get used). Additionally, even without the sun, great amounts of energy within the core of the earth move to the surface. So much energy moves from the core of the earth outward that life could exist (for some time) while the total entropy of the earth would increase.
