Ned, one of my favorite reactions to trot out to the creationists making the 2LOT arguement is the formation of cystine bonds from two cysteines during protein folding. The reaction is entropy negative and yet goes forward under the appropriate conditions due to the total negative Gibbs free energy. My general comment is that if the creationists were right than many of the proteins in their bodies would not be folded properly and they would die.
To paraphrase: "if your proteins offend thee, cast them from thee".
Start casting 2LOT creationists.
Anyway, as you and others have pointed out, negative entropy does not entail thermodynamically impossible. I have some wonderful papers by Wicken (sp?) et al. that go through the thermo of information that I will try to dig out and post on this thread later this afternoon.
"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
and my family motto
Transfixus sed non mortis
Taz
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