Section 1: How does it make you feel to be told the atoms that make up your body are billions of years old? Do you believe it? Do you feel any conflict between the notion of a universe, billions of years old, governed by natural laws and the existence of a God?

want you to express yourself with this essay.

Provide details as much as you can.

Section 2: The second law of thermodynamics can seem pretty esoteric (hover: understood by a small number of individuals with specialized knowledge). I want you to watch the YouTube video below about the second law of thermodynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iTCmOxpDc

Living things are much like the simple machine depicted in the video. Without a continual input of energy, they eventually succumb to the laws of thermodynamics. All the potential energy contained in the many bonds of the molecules making up their cells will eventually be dissipated as heat and the atoms that once formed them will diffuse randomly into the surroundings.

With these ideas in mind I want you to read this article on a plant that has lived in a sealed glass container, cut off from the outside for decades:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-

2267504/The-sealed-bottle-garden-thriving-40-years-fresh-air-water.html

Explain what is wrong with the following statement:

"This plant is violating the second law of thermodynamics. Since it is not exchanging materials with its environment it should not be alive at all. In fact, life is a violation of the second law of thermodynamics because living things are closed systems.

How is the terrarium like the Earth as a whole?