Second law of thermodynamics and evolution
I often find myself pondering the strangeness of the combination of the second law of thermodynamics and evolution.
On the one hand, the second law of thermodynamics (entropy) states that all energy (and thus matter) is slowly reducing to more randomised, simplified forms.
On the other, evolution, and not just biological, but since the dawn of the big bang, has been encouraging increasingly complex arrangments of energy and matter. From the emergence of atoms from the quantum soup in the first blink of an eylid, to the emergence of inteligence.
It seems as if there is an inate contradiction here. Which will win out? My guess is neither. Something different will eventualy emerge from this ancient catacysmic battle between two of the most powerful forces we know to exist. What that might be, I do not know.