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Stephen Fry Meets Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Law of Energy

The second law of thermodynamics is that entropy in a closed system increases. It's just the natural course of events for things not to go our way, he says. And so we have to deploy energy and information in order to carve out a zone of beneficial order with the use of energy. "We can test empirically if prayers are answered, after all"

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