In my recent article,1 the time unit conversion that occurs below Eq. (4c) is in error. Under the stated assumptions, the entropy change per second is −3.02 × 10−32 J/K, not −3.02 × 10−30 J/K. Consequently, Eq. (5) should be −3.02 J/K and the line below Eq. (6) should read “the Earth is bathed in about one hundred trillion times the amount of entropy flux required to support the rate of evolution assumed here.” (Furthermore, the answer to Question 1 in the appendix should be and the answer to Question 2 should be .)
The article's conclusion that, “the decrease in entropy required for evolution is so small compared to the entropy throughput that would occur even if the Earth were a dead planet, or if life on Earth were not evolving, that no measurement would...
