Quote Originally Posted by cheeseburger View Post
The earth is not a closed system. It's getting energy thrown at it by the bucketfull in the form of light from the sun. In case you still don't get it, lets go back to the staple entropy analogy: your room.

A mess, right? Let's say you go and clean up your room. You're adding energy to your room, and decreasing the entropy of your room. You're also not violating any laws of physics, because the entropy of the 'universe' is increasing ever so slightly while the entropy of your room is decreasing.
Agreed, but the amount of energy that has apparently been added by the sun does not seem to account for the drastic decrease in entropy. It is almost the equivelant of adding a nuclear bomb to a normal bonfire. The Earth does not retain most of the energy that actually reaches it from the sun.