Living Organisms and Heat Engines
Sunlight is relatively low-entropy energy in comparison with heat. Light photons have a hundred times the energy of heat photons. Heat is therefore high-entropy energy. Ultraviolet rays have still lower entropy than the light from the Sun, but those that have the lowest entropy usually have a destructive effect. Most organic substances break down under exposure to the high-energy photons that travel in the ultraviolet rays of lowest entropy. When substances break down, they increase the Earth’s entropy. It takes chlorophyll to convert low-entropy energy into low-entropy food. We eat this food to keep ourselves in a state of low entropy.
Chlorophyll is a kind of heat engine that separates carbon and hydrogen from oxygen while expelling high-entropy heat at a low temperature. The carbon and hydrogen end up in the vegetable matter of the plant and the oxygen goes into the atmosphere. The separation of carbon and hydrogen from oxygen lowers the entropy of the atmosphere and permits animal life with organized movement and nervous systems like our brains. A source of low-entropy energy therefore sustains our ability to process information with intelligence.
Animals and humans are heat engines that use oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Plants use carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Plants and animals are complementary, but the plants had to come first. Oxygen is very reactive and is therefore usually found in combination with water, carbon dioxide, and minerals. The creation narrative is right when it says that vegetation came before animals and people. The plants conditioned Earth’s atmosphere for a long time before it was suitable for animals and people. How did Moses know that vegetation came before animals and people?
Chlorophyll is a kind of heat engine that separates carbon and hydrogen from oxygen while expelling high-entropy heat at a low temperature. The carbon and hydrogen end up in the vegetable matter of the plant and the oxygen goes into the atmosphere. The separation of carbon and hydrogen from oxygen lowers the entropy of the atmosphere and permits animal life with organized movement and nervous systems like our brains. A source of low-entropy energy therefore sustains our ability to process information with intelligence.
Animals and humans are heat engines that use oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Plants use carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Plants and animals are complementary, but the plants had to come first. Oxygen is very reactive and is therefore usually found in combination with water, carbon dioxide, and minerals. The creation narrative is right when it says that vegetation came before animals and people. The plants conditioned Earth’s atmosphere for a long time before it was suitable for animals and people. How did Moses know that vegetation came before animals and people?
