You were not wrong, though. Life produces more entropy around it (it consumes energy) to lower its own entropy. Organisms are islands of lower entropy. Paraphr

You were not wrong, though. Life produces more entropy around it (it consumes energy) to lower its own entropy. Organisms are islands of lower entropy. Paraphrased from what a physicist doing "systems biology" (more or less: biology from first principles) said to me. I have also had a few lectures about thermodynamics.