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The book is OK, his concept is sound. He mixed weak faith based analogies in too much for my taste but it doesn't overly detract from the science. My criticism is not due to an atheistist tilt; the analogies felt forced and contrived, they were poor prose.

Overall his description of, "adaptive dissipation," is pretty solid. Our complex form (life) has developed to increase entropy. Nice discussion of thermodynamics and the flow of energy. We're all flames flickering in the light of the sun.

It would have been nice if he had touched on morphogenesis, proposed by Alan Turing, which also suggests reasons for complex biological forms.