Why the Second Law of Thermodynamics Still Holds

Philip Ball: "Patterns, regularities and order appear spontaneously in the universe over an immense range of scales in space and time. Not only does such organization seem to challenge the universal thermodynamic tendency towards an inexorable increase in entropy and disorder, but these patterns often share similar forms and features in systems that seem to have no relation to one another. It has become increasingly clear that there are organizing processes in nature that operate according to very general principles, insensitive to (or at best merely fine-tuned by) the details of a particular system." https://www.ongrowthandform.org/even...owth-and-form/

Is this the former editor of Nature Philip Ball, once unrelenting defender of the second law of thermodynamics? Times change, obviously.

Pentcho Valev