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What is a closed system?

What is a closed system? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (thermodynamics) A system that can exchange heat and work, but not matter, with its surroundings.
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Dembski's latest attempt to refute Darwinian theory is by arguing that in a closed system, information can only decrease.
The biosphere is a basically closed system in terms of matter but an open system in terms of energy.
The blood circulation is a closed system in which the pressure varies constantly.
Such issues are not the stuff of academic painting, which operates within a closed system.
Our government is a closed system of two political parties, both beholden to corporate interests.
If you take the whole Solar System and treat it as a closed system, the entropy does increase, just as the laws of thermodynamics require.

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