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by TeMPOraL 1145 days ago
> 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.