Lord (not a bag of shit at all) Byron, progenitor of the law of thermodynamics acknowledged that it did not conflict with evolution theory [Spirituality & Religion]

Well. Most people don't know what entropy entails.

The easiest is that it is a measure of how (Gibbs) free energy is converted to or dissipated as heat.

So take a plant. It takes light and converts it to sugars and dissipates the remaining energy as heat. This is a huge increase in entropy as opposed to the same sun hitting a pile of dead leaves.

Living things rock at this.

This free energy to heat conversion way of looking a entropy is better than other definitions of entropy, such as the one associated with "order".

That is problematic.

Entropy goes as the logarithm of the number of microstates in the system. You could say the log of "order". Certainly there is a lot of "order" in a giraffe. But that doesn't violate second law as it's the entropy of a whole system. A lifetime of plants converted to giraffe shit and piss as opposed to a giraffe.

The thing is, thermodynamics speaks of the evolution of life just as well as natural selection if not better.

On the basis of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics we can predict living things evolving in an emergent fashion to increase entropy. A tree converts Gibbs free energy to heat more effectively than algae. How the algae get to a tree is the scope of evolutionary genetics, but that such a jump would have to happen, at least be favored, is just physics.

This whole film of life on the earth, contrary to the creationist, is almost predestined by the second law and is a entropy increasing machine.

It's only a 2nd law violating phenomenon, if one doesn't understand how Gibbs free energy relates to heat through entropy, or that the "order" that scales with entropy is for a whole closed system. And not for an open system.

Reference: probably the best, Jeremy England.