[water-your-self]

Life is not an accelerator. It takes energy and produces order from it, inefficiantly but order still. If earth never had any life, it would simply be a warmer soup. Instead look around at what photosynthesis and energy storage has accomplished. Without it there would not be hundred story buildings, roads, olympic competitions, taxes, karaoke, or anything thay exists around us. Certainly without life all energy from the sun would have simply blasted a the wet space rock that we call earth all the same. I posit that life is a way to slow the trend towards entropy. It is ultimately unstoppable, but the protest of life is beautiful in its epemeral spite in the face of that truth.

[TeMPOraL]

> It takes energy and produces order from it, inefficiantly but order still. If earth never had any life, it would simply be a warmer soup.

The point is, that warmer soup would be a net lower entropy state if you take the entire Earth and/or the Solar System into the consideration. Life takes energy and produces order, which means it excretes even more disorder somewhere else.

[XorNot]

Complex organic molecules don't dig themselves out of the ground and set themselves on fire.